I had to loosen the back straps, but itdidn't matter, I was wearing high heels!Upon standing up, I had a bit of a rude awakening. The mules might have...een about only two inches shorter, but I had no idea that that littlebit of height would make such a difference. After steadying myself, Ipracticed my strut to the closet and back to the bed a few times. Itwasn't so much a feminine runway walk so much as it was trying not tofall over and break my neck. Being careful was important. I didn't. Dragged, because Frank was not normally into nightlife. He was a prodigy in school, college and grad school, completing his dissertation at twenty one, but at a cost to his social life.Since they met, Angela had been a leader in social endeavors. She loved to dance, enjoyed going to concerts, and bought weird (to Frank) music to play in his car."Come on, Mr. Stuffy! Let's go!" she said as she was changing into her party clothes."I was hoping to finish my book today." Frank was in the middle of. We're gonna see a bunch of hugging and crying," I laughed."You can laugh now, but you'd better not laugh at them." Amen," I said.When the wagons stopped for the day, Abby asked if she could go and play with her friends. "Honey, I don't think it's a good idea tonight. Tomorrow we'll be at Fort Hall and from then on you can play every night with them. Tonight, I'm afraid you might run into Mrs. Wattley again."Mrs. Wattley must have scared Abby pretty badly because she didn't put up much of a. I even found an old vinyl album of the greatest hits of the band we had just seen and I put it on the stereo at the lowest volume. On the mantelpiece were family photos showing a young girl growing up. In the last one she looked about eighteen. Laura’s daughter was the image of her mother. At the back of a wall unit I found Laura’s official graduation photo in her robe. I compared the two. I could hear feet coming down the stairs behind me. “I found your graduation photo. You and your daughter.