Like your parents have?"Bobby stared at her long enough that Collette began to squirm slightly.'How the hell does she know about that?' he thought. Th...n slowly dawning... 'Oh, no, ' he thought. 'Just what else had the ladies at that wedding shower talked about, for god's sake?'He decided to put off that discussion for now."I guess I hadn't thought about it. Right now, after all that's happened, I think being with one person is all I need."She smiled at him. "Don't you say the nicest things?". The last sentence was, "I'm probably going to regret this, but I'm enclosing a check. Use it for college or whatever you want." What did he give you?" I asked her."Five thousand." Are you OK?" Yeah. I don't know why, I never expected this. Deep down, I hoped he would change and suddenly like me. I guess that's never going to happen." It's tough to say this about family but I think you're better off without both of them." Hey, I've got my family right here. That's why I call him my birth. The public heads of both sides will become targets for the more militant and angry of the other side. The National Council knows this, so it wants someone else to be the target. They claim the lead should be by a grass-roots minister, but the real reason is they’re afraid of reprisals against themselves. I’m telling all of the ministers I know not to lead this fight, and you’re the first. You can’t win the fight and all you’ll do is cause trouble. Stop the vote today and it only comes up again. I called Chrissi the next day, we dated, started going steady, got engaged and were married three months after graduation. Our six-year marriage had been a good one although there were a few rough spots that only I knew about and I managed to work through them without letting Chrissi know. They were mostly things caused by the fact that I am basically insecure. Even though I am married to Chrissi I had never been able to convince myself that I deserved her. I always had the thought in the back.