Gracie, your status right now is different than when you received that text. Candy, you’re in a different place as well.” He looked at Candy. “...hat kind of work do you do, baby?” “I work as a customer service associate at a parts warehouse,” she answered. “And where do you live?” “I have a small apartment about a block and a half from the bar where Gr-- I mean, Miss met me.” Looking at Gracie, “We drove by them on our way here.” Gracie nodded but did not speak. “Alone?” Daddy asked. “Um,. I did not even know you owned one." I don't. I had to borrow this one from Martin." Alexander, do not lie to an old lady. There is no way you could squeeze your height into a suit Martin might own, and there is no way it would not gape at the waist, even if you did. It looks good on you by the way. Remind me the next time Karl is in town and we will get him to fit you for a couple of new ones." Yes Monique. I buy one suit a year and there is no way I could afford to look at a Lagerfeld, much. Jane pulled up at precisely ten o-clock with the two bicycles mounted on a rack. She jogged lightly to the door which opened as she approached it. Susan gave her a quick hug and her mother called her back to the table. Offering Jane a cup of coffee.Jane sat comfortably at the table with Susan's family as they finished their late breakfast."I think I'll make this a Saturday tradition from now on. I quite like eating a leisurely meal with my family before they separate for the ends of the earth. In fact, sometimes he gloated in it. Once,after winning Steffi a giant stuffed animal, Billy saw his friend Tim."How's your girlfriend?" Tim taunted, "Does she think you're her bigstrong hero now that you won her a stuffed animal?"Steffi had run to the restroom, so she couldn't hear Billy's response.Lapsing back into "home mode" Billy boasted, "You better believe it.That's not the only big thing I'm going to stuff her with."The truth, of course, was that Billy and Steffi had not progressed.