He seemed to stay at his computer all day, not doing anything but staring at his business spreadsheet. You see he was an accountant, and ran his busin...ss from home. I needed to find a way to get his attention. Momma was long gone, having run away with the guy next door. And I could hardly even think about her without a feeling little hostility. There was never any thought of custody. Dad had raised me from the time I was ten years old without a peep from my mother. I had no idea what my father. He got a driver's license. He would have drove home on cloud ninebut he did the responsible thing and payed strict attention to the roadinstead. He celebrated when he got home. He spent the rest of the dayat home. He had some chores to do but he didn't mind. It was worth itjust to have a driver's license. He started dinner preparations justbefore Karen arrived back from school.Karen didn't stay long. She was just dropping off her books and wasgoing out to play with her friends. Justin. This wasfollowed by some kind of wrap what went around his belly and was thentightened. It was making it hard to breathe. Then came the swimsuit, sheunzipped it, he stepped into it and she zipped it up. She told him to sitback down. What followed was a pair of orange shoes, they had at least 3"heels and had ankle straps. She helped him into them and adjusted thestraps.By his reckoning there was only one thing left for the outfit to becomplete, it was the gloves he saw before. As he expected the. Saturday, Whitney showed up at my house just as Rhonda was leaving to start her collections. Rhonda and I didn't have a whole lot of time together, so she'd been getting to my place right after she finished delivering papers at six-thirty on Saturdays and staying until collections started at ten. We'd have breakfast and usually go out to brush and feed the horses. Early morning was still our special time together and it was surprising how often we didn't say a word while we cared for the.