For example, in the middle of the night soon after he joined us, our first tenant, Joey, knocked lightly on our bedroom door. What is it, sweetie? Jun... asked. Joey said, I had a bad dream. Joey was the quarterback of the football team. Here is a guy who faced defensive linemen trying to take his head off. It amazed me to see him in the privacy of our bedroom acting like a scared little boy. Poor baby, said my wife. Come to Mama June. Joey slipped into our bed, on Junes other side. There I was. Angela turned 13 and just went crazy. It all went downhill as Angela found new friends and started using drugs and our lives went from one crisis to another. Tonight it was the worst ever and Angela hit mom, I stepped in and separated them, then put Angela in her room. Mom said "Robert you're responsible for your older sister now and I want you to control her." Mom packed her things and drove up to our grandparent's house 240 miles away. Angela is a Goth, she thinks her and her friends are. .." Mike looked up at the picture in the home of his lifelong friend Rod,and Rod's wife Loretta. The long serious look on his face, his son inthe other room talking to Loretta. The years slipped by him, and slowlyhe began to deposit each and every idea in his mind. Cd: "What? I'm loving this shit Queen Bitch!" The drive had been long, and the heat was intense, but was not to last.These were the final days of the Autumn that he had enjoyed. Fishingwith his son, and going on trips with him while. ‘Okay, okay, Harley. I’ll move my dang truck. I forgot you put up that dang sign just for Roy. Tarnation, it doesn’t seem fair. I don’t rightly know, why he gets a special place to park, when the rest of us don’t. I buy more stuff in a day from you than he buys from you in a month.’ ‘Because Roy’s in a wheelchair, you fool,’ said Harley. Even though they’re best of friends, they have the same dang argument ev’rytime Earl comes to town. Anyway, I was relaxin’ there with Earth, the nickname I.