I would love to buy it from you, but I couldn’t even begin to give you what it’s worth.”After some more talk of this variety she thanked the man... and they departed the store. Deep in thought, they walked back to Charity’s house. She carefully placed the pearl in her jewelry box.“Well. What now?” she said, turning to Darlene.“I dunno. Charity, I’m sorry, but I’m in over my head. I don’t know what to tell you.”“S’okay. Thanks for being there.”Charity spent the rest of the evening kind of in a. He liked that idea! She reminded him he can’t be listed as the father due to his age; he was fine with that so long as he could impregnate her again. He asked “but what if you have another set of triplets next pregnancy?” “Well, I’d be absolutely fine with that, but I think having 2 deliveries of your black babies within a 365-day period with bringing 3 black babies into the world each time would be my limit. No 3rd pregnancy in that case. But, if I only have 1 of your babies with my 2nd. ” Gaynor looked up at the sound of my voice. “What? Mmm, yes, it was.” She smiled across at me. “Just a pity I couldn’t have the best of both worlds, eh?” My answering grin must have been sheepish. “Never mind,” said Gaynor quickly, “we might not have worked out. There’s no way of knowing. Perhaps all these things happen for the best. You know, fate, karma, call it what you will.” I put my half-empty mug on the table. “Maybe,” I said, “but I do know we can’t do anything about the past. We can. Today, the twins and three teenage “pretty boys” came down to the beach to hang out and smoke on a small wooden deck that had kind of been built at the bottom of the stairs leading down from their backyard. The girls had been tuned in on their hot young neighbor since they first met a few months ago, but this was only the second time they’d seen him down on the beach frolicking in the surf, mostly unclothed, with his friends. Their own beaus had to endure the girls blatantly ogling Ryan, Matt.