On the fourth -- the first Monday in February-- I hit the ground running with my new employer, Politically Involved, the online magazine/blog that wa... growing by leaps and bounds because of the current national interest in the presidential election campaign.I was a little late getting into the fray, but I did attend a flurry of local and regional events in the District, Maryland and Northern Virginia leading up to the February 12 primaries in all three jurisdictions.I was showing up. ”“We figured that since the government chose today, we could, too,” Mom said.“What?”She held out an envelope with the readily identifiable symbol of the National Service. Well, now we know what happens if your eighteenth birthday falls on a no mail delivery day. They get the letter to you the day before. By this time, we all knew what was in the letter so I just stuck it in my pocket. I wasn’t going to make a show of burning it like Joan did. I had to reflect on how much less stress I was under. Im going to have a talk with…mother…" I stormed off and found her in her throne room. "Kill me!?" "What again?" "You built a girl…of all things. To kill me?" "How do-" "If you thought I posed a threat keep me in check with your own hand not the hands of some one else." "You foolish boy. You sho-" "Last time I checked I was the only one who could kill whats knocking on our door and secondly I got rid of my demons." "All true but." "But what? Case closed." "No. you shouldn’t have gone there let. But we went too far and well, you know … ‘We couldn’t keep our hands off of each other and for weeks, we enjoyed a splendor, a love, a joy beyond words. One day, I worried a bit, the next day I worried more. I told Dan and he told me it would be fine, it would work out. He held me and we were one again. ‘After a week, I went to the doctor. I was going to have a baby. Sweetheart, I can’t tell you all I felt. The fear and panic were as large as the love and sunshine that filled me. I had to tell.