I think Terri’s still sizing me up, hence the little glance when she dropped ‘animalistic and primal’.So okay, I can do this. Mikayla Gundresen ...ight be a high school dropout, but she’s no dumb-ass. “This is how they work off the energies they would’ve expended defending the homestead and killing a beast for food.” My turn to glance at her, in time to see her smirk. Make that ‘charming smirk’. “That white ball is a vestigial mammoth.”“You know you belong here, don’t you, Mimi?” she said.“I. “And what did your mother say?”“I don’t know how much you have figured out how our family … and many of the gypsy families work. But when a child is born they are betrothed to child from a different family. Once they come of age they are married. If there are any un-attached females in his family or another they can be courted. Then he can have multiple wives. He is allowed as many wives as he can provide for. The families believe that you must be able to provide for you and the family any. As various dorm staff meetings indicated university life shortly would be returning to normal, she decided that one issue she wanted to tackle was her grammar. There was nothing about her; not her manner of dressing, not the way she wrote, and certainly not her tastes in music and popular culture that would indicate where she was from. The mean streets of New Jersey were fading into a distant memory in Cecilia's mind after having been away for a year and a half attending college. This may or may not have happened, but it does stand out in my mind. Of course being that young, all I have is a slight image as memory but the feeling of humiliation and embarrassment remains real in mind.The next memory would be when we were at the family cottage with our extended family, Aunts, Uncles, and Grandparents etc. As was the norm on these occasions, the k**s had to put on a “show”. A little song and dance thing, the older cousins telling the younger ones what to do. I had to be.