She recently appeared in an article in Elle Financial magazine about young successful people. It's interesting to note that they are both half-sisters...to me. Mother had us all with three different men, none of us have much (if any) contact with any of our fathers. However, I do recall this one time when we were coming back from Elizabeth's graduation ceremony, her father was waiting for us at the gate, but Elizabeth simply pulled down the window of the car a little and said, ?My time is too. I'm not going to tell you just yet. I'm going to letit be a surprise. But first - now don't get mad - I want you toget up, take a shower, and go make breakfast while I run an errand.I'll be gone for about an hour and when I get back you'll get asurprise I think you'll really like, OK?" Yeah - sure, mom. If you say so," Bobby said, sounding disappointed."Trust me, dear. I know you're really going to love it." OK, mom," he said, slowly sitting up on the opposite edge of thebed. Norma got up as. Daium's eyes opened. A granite stone marker sat on the ground before her, a carved ball with the continents of Tanah etched in. Next to it, a brown stone with her father's name. A stone with Justin's parent's names. And so on. A memorial, Melinda had called it. A memorial to the dead, and the lost. They ringed the Sacred Tree of her home world. Someday, someday far away, she hoped, she would have a marker here. Her children would come, with their children, and stand in remembrance.Humans amazed. All I could do was hang onto her neck for dear life. Actually, it was probably good that Mabel bolted. I could hear the conductor cursing and screaming at me to bring his horse back.Mabel realized that she was tired and slowed to a trot. It was easier to stay on, but my backside was paying the price. I tried to steer Mabel and it somewhat worked, I guess. Hey, I wasn't the Lone Ranger; I didn't know what the horse was thinking. Marks' car was still in sight and I wasn't getting too close. It.