Don’t we all? I convinced myself I didn’t want him back, didn’t want the man who had left me for another girl.Of course, now everything is diffe...ent. Vanessa.Bear is huge. But he’s also thoughtful, insightful. Smart. To save the Unicorn, he and Vanessa brought an entirely new cuisine to Kansas City.Gullah.West African slaves carried their recipes, many of them thousands of years old, in their heads. Remembered them on slave ships headed for the South Carolina low country in the 1600s.Gullah. ” “What, me going out on a date?” He nodded, “You don’t have to do this you know?” he told her. She kissed him on the lips gently but quickly, “I think we both know that I have to do this, don’t we?” she replied, “all these years of talking about it. It’s inevitable that it is going to happen sooner or later.” “Are you going to........?” he asked. Terry continued her cleaning, “Maybe?” “You seem to be so calm about it,” Simon told her. “What, going out on my first date in over twelve. He went back to get his own third waffle. Mom followed him in carrying her own plate. He expected Cat to ask for more. Why not? He’d eat what she left. Instead she sat there looking antsier but making no effort to get up.“Have you finished, Memere?” she asked. At her nod, she continued, “Charles? Tante Kathleen?” They both had finished and told her so. She got up. Before Bob could admonish her that she should ask to be excused, she began to sing.“Allons enfants de la patrie.” She was a trifle. “Yeah. My wife. Melody. She is pregnant.” Jake makes it obvious he DOES NOT want to talk to her. “Melody? What? Jake, when did you get married?” Lana is so dumb. Or tries to act like it. “In August, after graduation. You were there… at the wedding.” Jake backs towards the door, “I gotta go Lana.” “Maybe we could get together sometime! For coffee!” She grabs his arm and tries to hold him down. He jerks away from her not-so-tight grasp. “No Lana! I am not interested in you! I am married, go.