." She was mourning! There's a difference!" With all due respect, ma'm, you weren't here..." And with all due respect, sir, I am now and I will be rem...ving mydaughter from this school next week." I reached into my purse and pulledout a business card for my school and handed it to the principal."Please forward her records to this address. Thank you." I stood toleave.The principal cleared his throat. "You can't run away from herproblems." And you can't drug them into submission, sir." He started. As he opened the car trunk her body began to shake and tears streamed down her face. Pulling her close to him forcing her to look into his eyes, his voice calm and steady as he spoke"Get in." She tried to move, tried to obey his words, but her body froze! The angry in his eyes grew wild, grabbing her hair pushing on the back of her head he shoved her face down in the trunk, the side of her face and shoulder made contact with a sharp piece of metal as she landed. Her whole body now consumed. She said, walking into the bathroom. I raised an eyebrow. I wish I was Kyle tonight. I laughed. Oh, shut up. Its just for under my dress. Riiiiight. I rolled my eyes at this and, finally done perfecting my hair, moved on to apply mascara to my already extremely long eyelashes. She went to my closet and looked through the outfits I had to choose from as I did this. She pushed aside a red dress, a purple skirt, and a yellow sundress, muttering things like too sexy, not sexy enough, and what the. He liked the extra money she was bringing in, but didn’t discuss local issues with her because he didn’t believe politics was anything women should know about or be involved in. ‘He keeps saying they should cut the school budget,’ Sheila fumed one night. ‘Can’t he understand how important a good education is?’ She made a face. ‘He’s just like his father. I swear, every word that comes out of his mouth starts in his father’s brain.’ Her father-in-law, also a plumber, was just slightly less.