Then he asked me if I could come back the next day and help put the new fixtures in and I said, ‘Hell yeah,’ and shook his hand. I was disappointe... I did not see Alicia, but felt almost euphoric over having some money in my pocket and the chance to make some more the next day. I decided I’d better go buy a pair of jeans and a shirt or two, but I didn’t go crazy spending. Luckily I found some jeans on sale. I still ate off the value menu and sitting there it struck me that I had eaten three. All of the doors opened and the boys got out, then one of then grabbed herarm and helped her out too, she had no idea where she was but she was outsideand she could hear cars passing on a street fairly close by, she knew it wasdark already but was still panicking that someone would see her. She was takenby the arm again and led along some tarmac, until they stopped abruptly. Agruff voice that she didn't recognise spoke, ?So this is her then??, panicand humiliation overcame her and she tried to. Her husband looked a bit older than her, probably inhis mid fifties and slightly balding, but in good physical shape. They werechatting in the kitchen and she was giving him a hard time about somethingwhich, I guess, is his role in life, to listen to his gorgeous wife criticisingeverything he tried to do. Poor bastard I thought, but maybe she would actdifferently to him after this afternoon was finished and we taught her somemanners. Ed was the biggest of us all and strong as an ox, so. ”‘Yeah, and you’ll wish you never heard of me, when I tell you the good news about your sorry-ass son’I put the phone back on the night table and told them, “We’ll have two more of my friends here around 10:00 tonight. I want them sleeping in this bed, with us for as long as they’re here. I’m not sure what all has happened, but they may live here from now on.“Naomi, you and Emmylou met both of them at the wedding down there. Jillian was getting married, and Josalyn is her sister. I want y’all.