Well, that's not exactly true. He was normal in the sense that he'd never caused any trouble to American society as a whole. Never been in any serious...trouble with the law other than that one parking ticket he'd paid promptly, never shoplifted, been drunk and/or disorderly, and he'd never been the slightest bit of trouble really to any of the teachers he'd had when he had been in school. In fact, if his teachers had been asked, they would have universally remembered him as, "That quiet boy who. So as she turned to me, that look of disappointment and self-doubt in her eyes again, I got off the bed, extending my hand, saying, “ Baby, come here.” This was rather abrupt and there was a look of puzzlement in her eyes, but she joined me next to the bed in an embrace. We kissed and hugged and I whispered in her ear, “Get down on your knees babe,” as I softly pressed down on her shoulders. She looked at me with a light of understanding lighting up her eyes. On her knees, her face was at the. "Yeah, reasonable would be good. I hope you've got your prayer beads handy," he said."Yeah for real," she said. "Anyway, I've got to get back. I have a nine o'clock curfew." He nodded."Yeah, I can dig it. Anyway, here's hoping," he said, as he poured and then raised a stem glass of white wine to her. He sipped it, and handed it to her to do likewise.Well, she didn't get back at nine o'clock; she got back at 8:25. I was a little surprised. But, whatever, I had to rate it as a good omen. Maybe. Jack suggested Home Town Buffet and told Laurie how she take her own plate around and put whatever she wanted to eat on it. That sold her on it and she started hounding everybody, asking "Can we go now?" every couple of minutes or so.Daddy finally got up after twenty minutes of this. "Honey, why don't we meet you over there? We'll take Laurie to the restaurant and get started." OK, Daddy."Laurie gave me and Jack kisses, then ran back into the kitchen as Daddy and Wanda started to leave with her.