Lover-boyRalphy is in Chicago. Poor baybee. Anyway, this is Bobo.Bobo, I want you to meet Ginny. She’s going to take careof you this afternoon. ...ow you mind your manners anddon’t get in her way, you hear? Or I’ll bop your earsoff when I get back.” Nancy knelt on the floor androughed the dog’s head and neck for a second, thenturned to Virginia. “He’s already been fed, so don’t let him tell youotherwise. Well, I better run. Thanks again,. In the end I left a few of the bulkier pieces that were ‘mine’ as it wasn’t worth my back pain to bring them out of the house and load them on the truck all by myself. I was finally done just before six, and bet myself that I wouldn’t have missed her arrival back home by very much. Since I really had no desire to talk with her I rushed to get finished. It was pretty obvious her affair with her boss had been going on for quite a long time, perhaps even a year or even more. At the last minute I. And lately it’s gotten worse. I never really hated her. I know I said I did a few times but that was only ever ‘cause I was angry and not ‘cause I actually hated her. But I’ve been getting angrier and angrier and I hate being angry but I can’t help it ‘cause it’s not my fault. It’s all because of her.The thing is I watch Dad and he’s always so nice to people. He always does everything he can to be nice to somebody even if they’re being mean to him. If he can’t be nice to somebody he’d rather. I couldn't see myself working side-by-side with you. It would eat at me. These last two weeks have been horrible. You wouldn't believe how down I was." If you'd have answered your phone, you wouldn't have had to go through all that," he chided."I didn't want to know. I didn't want to hear you tell me that Lisa was back. I couldn't face it."His response was to hold me more tightly, if that was possible. I didn't mind in the slightest. It was something I had longed for and now it was happening.