Though I was older and had been grown and out of the house years earlier, Chloe and I had always had a close relationship, and after I moved away, we ...till kept in contact with each other and talked on the phone frequently. I’ll be the first to admit that our parents, particularly our father, were very strict with Chloe, perhaps because she was a girl. Protective and overly sheltering, which probably added to her being so shy, having low self-esteem, and a general distrust and fear of anyone. No one could have been happier than Fred and Violet Orton. They never imagined their son would turn out to be the accomplished businessman he had become. Fred's part-time accounting assistance to Bill had been replaced by a professional firm. As the business grew, Bill had seen his father committing more and more time to assisting him and he realized he needed to relieve that pressure.He replaced his pickup truck with two leased vans with low-step wide-door side-loading features. He bought a. Everything is registered and legal. Because this has been a good year for the organization, distributions have been made to the principal members five years ahead of schedule. All of the lump sum payments have had the taxes paid to the IRS in your name. Bob, believe me, we have a team of lawyers working on this and we are very legitimate."'Thank you, Kathy; I will try to live with the consequences of this windfall. See you soon."Wow, that was some conversation. I think Kathy and Harlou were. Suddenly I felt fine. I felt better than fine. "LeeAnn, I'm not really hungry. Let's go find a club or something. Iwant a man!" Aw, hon, we've got lots of shopping to do. I'll tell you what, I havean idea." She took me by the hand and led me to the video arcade. Theplace was empty except for the token tender - a 19 year old boy withpizza face and no chance to impress the girls aside from his mad skillsat Tomb Raider or whatever the kids were playing these days. And giventhe number of.