They were not kind people, or even honest people. If a person has redeeming qualities, or is trying to become better, I respect that, and I give them ...redit for it. After my childhood, I didn’t speak to my father for over 7 years. When I finally felt ready to forgive him, and had seen that he had been trying to fix the things that made him so terrible, I opened that communication again. Guardedly, and frankly it’s still guardedly after over a decade. But we have a good relationship now. I. A well built, good looking young man arrived at my door and introducedhimself. "Hi, I'm Robert. You must be Teresa." Hi Robert, I've been expecting you!Please come in and save me fromthrowing my shoe through my TV!" I promise you it will be a piece of cake." I'm usually so good with these things, I even have a website I designedmyself. I'll show you later if you're interested." Sure, that sounds great. What kind of website is it?" Oh we can get to that later, I want to see what I've been doing. You and all the others here are invited to the reception of course. I'm telling you first, and then Lena and me are going to get the girls together tomorrow and tell them over a drink. Until then, I'd like it to be between us for now."Brian obviously wanted to talk about it further, but I rose and headed for the door. Over my shoulder I said, "We'll send you an invite." I smiled and blew him a kiss then left his office. Back behind my desk I phoned Lena and told I'd broken the news to Brian and. I'm going to buy gift certificates for a San Antonio department store. That way you can all go shopping after Christmas." "That will be fun. We'll do the same for you, but we may have to buy them after Christmas. I don't know much about the stores in San Antonio." "There's a Golf Galaxy in San Antonio." "Oh, all right. That will be perfect. There's one not far from the Mall here. We'll go there this afternoon." "Give Jodie and Tricia my love." "I will. Bye Michael. I love you. I'll call you.