‘Pop, can we stop and break out the MRE’s? I’m getting hungry.’ (Author’s note. MRE stands for Meal Ready to Eat) ‘No MRE’s this trip, ...am,’ he replied. ‘What? But we always have MRE’s on the way up and the way back.’ ‘Not always, honey,’ Michelle started. ‘Remember that year when I was pregnant with Michael? We didn’t do MRE’s that year.’ Sam was shocked. She couldn’t know, could she? ‘What are you trying to say, mom?’ ‘Are you pregnant again?’ Chris jumped in. ‘No, I’m not pregnant.’. "Because it's beautiful weather, Anne. And so we can smoke after our dinner." Anne rolled her eyes and laughed, "You're really into this cigar thing Alexis. I hope you brought one for me!" Of course," I replied.I must say that the surf and turf dinner that I had was one of the best meals I ever ate. Everyone else had the same except for Marilyn, who was worried about her cholesterol. She had grilled salmon, which she proclaimed "out of this world." We ate, we drank Bordeaux, and had a grand. Even though it was a bad dream, it had kind of a nice ending to it, and I woke up smiling. That day at school, I had to protect little Johnny Something only a few times. In the morning I was walking down the hall with my friends, and I saw him headed right for us. One of my friends was about to hit him, and I grabbed his hand and told him to leave the little punk alone. "Why?" he asked. "He's not worth it," I said. My friend shrugged and hit someone else. Then right after lunch I saw that a. I used to help her in cooking,shopping,take her to the park. As she had no child all her motherly love and affection rained on me. As I never get such kind of treatment she became my whole world. Even I would called her momma(mother) when uncle was not around.She was very pious.she prayed five times a day. Soon I was busy with my college. I could not pass time with her as before. Sometimes didn’t know why I found her siting gloomy.If I asked her she would just refuse it.One evening she asked me.