I managed to raise the kids despite having no help from Ralph or his family. They wouldn’t even talk to me. He had told them from the beginning that...marrying me was a mistake. I thought having children would make him truly love me, but it had the opposite effect. When David, my second, was born, he left.”She sighed and pointed at the blank tombstone. “We had purchased gravesites when this new section of the cemetery was established. The cost of the lots included a free headstone... to be. It was amazing to watch her slice through eachone with the long nail on her index finger like a surgeon, as one by one,three curls multiplied into six."Not bad, right?" said his sister, knowing he loved them. "Shake yourhead a little before I brush them out." Brush them out," whined Craig, shaking his head and loving them waveringin the mirror. "No, I don't want them gone already?" Not exactly, but I told you if you really wanted a head full of tightercurls, we needed to go a bit less sexy. ..there. Not joking with the men or flirting with the pretty girls in their barely-there club wear. Just watching with an almost preternatural stillness from his position next to the door in a way that Adam said he found unnerving but to her was quietly thrilling and a million miles away from Adam and his overinflated opinion of his own bravado. He would watch them come up the stairs and ignore Adam's “man to man” banter as she paid the cover charge for them both, keeping his eyes on them until. With a mother’s critical eye, Jamie inspected her son’s dorm room. There were two beds on opposite walls. Two desks sat on either side of the window opposite the entry door. The room was painted an institutional off white. Her lip curled. Small but serviceable, she thought.Sam walked quietly up behind his mother. He loved the way her jean shorts fit tightly across her mature behind. Her legs, with their cute cellulite dimples, filled the pant leg. Her bra straps were visible through the sweat.