What’s your favorite kind?’ ‘I like them all but my favorite is carrot cake.’ ‘Let me see if we have the ingredients.’ She walked to the k...tchen and looked up the recipe. After a few minutes of reading and searching through the fridge and cabinets, Pam determined that we were short on several ingredients. ‘Can you drive me to Publix again? I need sugar, pecans, cream cheese, and carrots.’ ‘Wouldn’t it be easier just to buy a carrot cake mix?’ She looked at me like I had slapped her. ‘That’s. If you see Sarah will you tell Maize and hold Sarah until we can come and pick her up?"I agreed and walked with Henry to the truck. His two boys jumped in the back of the truck and stood with that silly grin on their faces. The woman in the truck never looked at anything around her; she just stared straight ahead.As Henry was getting into the truck I saw the two boxes of dynamite close to the cab, "Is that Aaron's dynamite?"Henry shot me a glance that told me to mind my own business, "He don't. She eyed the boy warily, but the fact was that there was nothing really awful about him -- he was tall, reasonably good looking, and seemed to have some vestigial manners. Nate returned the regard, wondering when Mama was going to say something, but said nothing -- Nate had determined that his ghetto- black arrogance and the 'rap' that went with it put him at a disadvantage where Nora was concerned, so he'd shelved it -- that meant playing it cool with Mama, rather than going on the offensive. " he started."When I found out you were in practice out here and thought I might drop by, I figured you might want to know how our bet turned out in the long run, so I did a little digging. I still find it hard to believe you actually got Lorene to... Well, anyway, Tammy, the young married woman..."Conquest number one," mused Eric. Blonde, married, nineteen as I remember and the tightest little..." Yeah, that's her. You may also remember you knocked her up." Hmmmmm, yeah I do seem to remember.