" Ki said as they stepped inside while Carl held the door open."Please call me Carl or dad. We're practically family." Carl said, his usual jovial sel...."I think calling you dad already would be premature sir." Emily replied."Nonsense! I've been looking forward to this day for a long time. Now when can I expect my grandchildren?" Carl said with a grin as he leaned forward."Dad!" Joe said astonished at his father.Both Emily and Ki had to bite their lips to keep from laughing."What? I won't be. L kept some expensive things in his garage. I saw his new basketball and I knew I wanted it. So one day when I had a garage drop off delivery, I succumbed to temptation and decided to steal it. He never was home when I delivered to his garage but on the one day I decided to steal from him, he was home.He called my name as I was walking back to my car and he saw his new basketball in my hands. He knew I had stolen it and he was very angry at me. First he said he would call my boss and also. ComIt wasn't exactly the job I envisioned, but I was working, and I wasmaking what seemed like a lot of money. It was the fact that I work as ahotel maid, which was way out of my experience. I saw the ad, and beingtotally broke, I applied for the job, thinking that maybe they could usea boy cleaner rather than a maid. But that did not happen. Grace, thewoman I work for insisted that ALL of her girls be properly dressed inthe usual powder blue dresses and white sneakers with their hair off. Lesbianism must run in the family because Fatima's mother had a mature-looking Arab woman cuddled in her arms.The Brides sat their bouquets on the altar, side-by-side, and took each other's hands. Rose launched into her wedding sermon. It was short, personal, all about love and commitment. "Always put your wife before your other lovers; she is the one that should be first in your heart," Rose preached, her eyes glancing to her twin sister lounging in the front row.I wondered if Marshal and I.