" Kathy wondered what that stood for as she pulled it off and tossed it aside.She had to find Christi. Now where could she be?Kathy snapped her finger.... She must be in Billy's room getting an extra wake-up call! How silly of her, of course that's where she was!"Billy?" Kathy whisper echoed her disappointment as she bounced onto the bed where her brother slept alone. "Have you seen Christi?" Christi?" The sleepy boy mumbled. "Kathy," he woke with a start, "what are you doing here? Mommy said you. ' Nobody argued with him, so then he said he would have his aide contact them with the details. And so it's set."No one said anything. They really didn't know what to say. Finally, Melody offered her congratulations. "That's just so great, Kyle. I'm really happy for you. So what school are you going to attend?"When Kyle told them, Sue-Ellyn immediately said, "That's where Stephanie wants to go." I know," Kyle replied. "That's why I chose it. So that we could be in school together."Stephanie was. The evidence was quite clear. "Clear," in fact, described the result perfectly. Virtually no detail at all in the negatives. Nothing. Zilch. Nothing I could salvage, even with the hardest highest-contrast paper I could find. It was hopeless. I felt like shit. Like failure. Dad wouldn't have approved, I'm sure of that.Just a fuckup. That's what it felt like and that's what it was. So, no, I didn't cry, but I felt like it. I solved it the way I'd solved so many similar things over the years: I. I did pass with distinction in all subjects but Mother had a breakdown which meant I had to take over the shop and forget plans of attending university and becoming a journalist.After a couple of years Mother recovered enough to manage the shop and I got a job at my father’s pot bank learning plate painting. My fellow workers were all girls who were a jolly bunch always laughing and full of hair-raising stories of their adventure with boys. I didn’t join in as the JW influence was still strong.