"Hi honey!" Zoe announced stepping through the door. "Back so soon?" mumbled Peter with sarcastic enthusiasm. "Don't you look happy to see me. Did you...clean the floor and the counters?" "Yes mom," answered Peter returning to his seat in front of the television. Zoe took off her coat and shoes and walked over to inspect his work. Everything looked satisfactory and she decided that she would cook something special tonight. After all, Peter would have to make a big decision soon. Once the chicken,. Sam will be fine. Stung yes, and I wish we could avoid even that, but it’s the one thing that is not in our control. I just hope he doesn’t lose it, as you’ve worried over so many times in these last days,” said Owen. She sighed.“Yes, I really really hope he doesn’t, lose it that is. Sam is not a violent man; he’s a truly gentle soul. But this, the divorce, I’m going to be hurting him seriously bad; I feel so guilty,” said Abigail.“Yes, as do I. But we’ve talked about this. Divorces happen. All. She helped me into it,hooking the top straps over my shoulders, and crossing them over myback. They ended in loops through which the waist 'belt' passed beforeit was tied in a large bow in the small of my back.She finally arranged the bow and the ribbons as she had done with myhair ribbon (which she cleared from inside the apron) and fussed withthe bib and shoulder straps to fluff up the edging plastic lace. Thepink translucent plastic was covered in little pink flowers, as feminineas it could. Better than nothing, he found a tree for ten bucks that looked as bad as he felt. Still his three kids didn’t care. They were just happy they had a tree to decorate and to have a place where Santa could leave them their presents. Unable to buy them anything they really wanted, all the toys they saw advertised on TV, and wrote to Santa asking for this and for that, were all too expensive. There were so few gifts under the tree that his children thought they were bad, when they were all so very.