We don’t have a television. We’re too far from the Lexington and Cincinnati stations to get good reception here, and while there’s a local cable...company getting started, dad doesn’t want to pay the high rates. We get The Lexington Leader afternoon paper, and that’s our news source. Anyway, we couldn’t sit down and watch television this evening, and that meant more time for conversation. Mom and dad sat on the sofa, while Mark and I were each in the single chairs. I noticed that mom had taken. He said can't you come up at least a hundred bucks? I told him that it was up to her. She had the money in her purse. I told him to go ask her while I looked the car over again. As he walked up to her side of the truck I saw the window come down. He started out standing way back away from the door but the longer he stood there the closer he got. I stayed away and let her work. At one point he actually had his head inside the truck. And in a few minutes he came back in the shop holding the. "Um, Gerry..." Yes, Baby?" They want me at M.I.T."Truly, I have no problem with America ... I just don't want to live there. No particular reason except being used to free health-care, that sort of thing.I managed a smile. "That's great! A real compliment, I think!" Uh huh. The Prof here said he wanted me too, but he didn't have the money in his budget." I didn't know you'd applied to M.I.T." I didn't. I didn't even think of working outside Britain." An even greater accolade, then." I suppose. " There is a special place in heaven for women like your mother, son." Donnie reached over and patted the boys head.Evie sighed. "How was it Donnie? Katrina and all you had to go through."Donnie had prepared a phony story. He sat back and tried to look devasted. He told the story of how he had waded waist deep through fetid water to rescue his mother, but when he got to her house, it was too late, she was already dead. Donnie watched a tear roll down Evie's cheek as she listened making him feel.