Love it.” Daisy added. “You’ll sleep with us inthe family bed, of course, won’t you Eric?”“Sure you want me too. I...mean, you’re family. I’m…”“If you don’t think your family now, Eric, well…whatcan I say? Of course you’re family.”“I’d love too. I feel so… loved… I… ah…” Ericstammered as again he was overcome with emotion andtears flowed down his cheeks, He felt so. Some joker has pinned a pair of lime green satin panties to the flaking dry wall like they was on display in the lingerie section of a department store. The same joker had scribed graffiti on the wall besides the undergarment 'I fucked Stephanie here 05/12/18’ with an arrow pointing to the crotch of the panties. Whoever Stephanie was, she was long gone and sans underwear.Beside the panties a series of nineteen-sixty era framed advertising posters had been hung from the wall, probably in an. ’ Sounding in my head and a group of children chasing after it. Shaking my head I started down only to catch Theresa coming up looking a little lost.I stopped her, “are you alright?”She looked at me with a lost look, “I did not know where to go or what to do.”I thought of all the children, “have you looked in on your daughters?”She gave me a sad smile, “they do not know me.”I made up my mind, “very well. Perhaps it is time to restore some order. Get with your sisters, as of right now your. I’d pay to watch Ariba, and you decimate some unsuspecting Sushi place’s sushi eating contest. For a skinny kid, Ariba might be able to eat you under the table and still be hungry. Both commercial refrigerators were full of leftovers and ready-to-eat meals after the funeral. Dee, Ariba, and Ellen left me a sweet note saying they came down for a midnight snack last night. Ellen said you would do all the dishes if I let you. Like that is going to happen,” the chef joked back.“Can you at least.