“Careful, baby,” Johanna started.He looked over his shoulder as if to say ‘I got this, Mom’ and gently touched. “Mimi foot hurt.”“C’me...e, big boy,” I said.He grinned and stood for me to scoop him up.“Are you a doctor?” I asked him.He grinned, letting his smile spread over his whole round face. “Doc-tor...”“What’d’you think of Tommy?” I asked him.He turned, grinning at Tommy. “Tommy. Mimi. Good. Fam’ly.”That’s what I keep seeing here – families. When I was little, when it was me and Mom and Dad,. .. “Hi!” The couple stopped just shy of the gazebo’s steps.“Oh, hi guys.” Julie’s voice was still a little tremulous. There was a brief silence and then she spoke again. “Um, sorry. This is Matt, my boyfriend.”I nodded to them, my gut tightening further at hearing her call me that. It’s funny how one word can just set you off. Up to that point, I felt no anger toward Julie. But when I looked at her then, I saw the things she’d done to me and the things she’d kept from me. It was surprising to. ”“Mr. Waco Kid, you get one more chance to live. BUT, if you ever come back here again, or if any of us Young Bucks ever set eyes on you again no matter where we are, we’ll kill you on sight,” Little Eli said as his brothers took their knives and cut his bloody clothes off him, leaving him standing naked in the dirt street with his boots on.“Hold his hand on the ground, Ezra. I got one more thing I need to explain to him in a way he’ll remember what I just told him, since he didn’t remember the. Why don't you believe me? I have never lied to you aboutthose things before and am not going to start now. You might not see meas your friend but I still still you as mine. How could I like you inthat way? How you acted since coming out as who you really are makes methink that I never even really knew you.The reason I am acting this way towards you is I am mad at you. I sharedand open up with you and you never did with me. I told you my mostintimate secrets and you did not do the same.I am not.