"Yeah, I guess so." He nodded to the newspaper and said, "Sports?"Helen pulled out the sports section and handed it to her son. "Thanks," Donnie said....elen was seated at a small table in the family's breakfast nook. The nook was separated from the kitchen by a high counter that doubled as a wet bar during social events. The bar had a couple of high-backed, swiveling stools situated there. It had been Donnie's habit for years to eat breakfast at the counter.Helen took the last bite of her. There was a fenced parking lot within two blocks of the condo where we could park our RV, but it sure was expensive.Other than the heated conversations about what we were doing with such a large RV, we really had no trouble. The RMV had gotten smart and had a driving simulator for the road test with vehicles this big. All they had to do was to dial in the dimensions of the vehicle, and the simulator did whatever was necessary to test the driver. We all passed the test and had our licenses. Along with those sad tasks, there were the twenty-seven people killed defending us on the yacht. And the issue of the casualties suffered in D.C. Sam took the lead for me and did an exceptional job. For once the press didn’t attack me for spending some time alone to deal with the loss of my wife.Congress and the Senate confirmed Sam in a unanimous vote and also confirmed my choice to replace him at Agriculture. Our choice to take over for Hawk at State was going the old fashioned route. He. .. ranch?”She blinked. Her heart started beating faster.“Just for the sake of argument,” she said.“Well then, you need to have them at least three years apart so they can help take care of each other, be playmates to each other, and start work in a way that lets the ... rancher ... spend plenty of time with them singly. Four years apart would be even better, logistically speaking.”“I’ve heard of family planning,” said Mandy, “But that’s taking it to the max, don’t you think?”“Well, the.