"She is only twenty-two and she acts with the maturity and grace of a thirty year old, and has done for years." I think we have three very special you...g adults with us" Sandra stated."I couldn't agree more Sandra" Alice said.A hostess came and guided them to the table and had them sit down before taking their drink order. They chatted about their plans for the rest of the week in New York when an older lady sat down in the empty chair beside Alice."Alice Ross, you didn't tell me you were coming. And, in spite of that fact that the boy was somewhat starvedfor love and affection, that distance seemed to have been mutual.When Jamie was eleven, his father met a beautiful, younger woman,Jasmine. Jasmine had been a high fashion model when she was younger, andunfortunately moved in the fast, hip, artsy world where drugs and moneywere abundant. She fell for a handsome photographer who swept her offher feet, got her pregnant, and then promptly dumped her. Jasmine hadbeen raised in a strict. “Don’t look at me like that, Mark. You know how angry I am at the way WWAG seems to be leaning. I am not at all happy with all this talk of taking Councillor Medcalf out of the equation by unlawful means. That Andy seems to have his own agenda in this regard and I don’t like it. I don’t like it one little bit.”“Hey, what’s this all about, anyway?” Mark was suddenly angry himself, “I thought you were all for stopping the road building through those ancient woods?”“I am, but you can’t use a wrong. But, the five-foot-eleven-inch, dark-skinned Black man was about to prove all of them wrong. They went fishing for sure. But the nighttime was all about ’special treatment. It meant the Baby Joe got all the soda he wanted plus all the candy he wanted. Unbeknownst to everyone other than Lawrence, the first chocolate candy bar contained two pain reliver tablets and the soda had been laced with vodka.In about forty minutes, Baby Joe was hyped up. He was now open to every suggestion Lawrence.