Even though I most certainly had been."Daddy was," Chris said smugly folding her arms across her breasts staring at me.I was damn glad that none of ou... neighbors could see us sitting at the angle the way we were in our back yard. It no doubt would have made for a very interesting sight, the four of us naked, sitting around the patio table at eight o'clock in the morning."I wasn't angry," I said in my own defense, though I got an immediate questioning look from my wife the moment she said. You did drive yourself insane with it for a little while." Not as long as you did."I held up my hands in surrender, laughing. "Fine, fine, you win..."Sajel winked. "Was she good?"I rolled my eyes. "Sajel, Sajel. So prurient." So man-like, actually, was what was going through my head. Yay, somebody else tries to find a balance between genders!She laughed. "Hey, you know me. Sexing up guys left and right." That's a hoot. Sajel's had how many boyfriends in her life? I'm sorry, was the correct. Where is Catfish by the way?’ I asked in a worried voice, thinking he might still be outside. ‘ Meow’ was what I heard above my head on the couch, there he sat still little damp from being outside but none the worse for wear. ‘My Hero!’ I said and pulled him into my lap for a kiss and a good petting. Well he liked the petting but ran off when I kissed him. I laughed and said he could give a lady a complex. I turned to see Gavin looking at me with a sparkle in his whiskey colored eyes. ‘I. But my mother, like all Jewish mothers, knew the truth. A child becomes a living breathing human being with rights when they graduate from Medical school, or, if they are a dunce, law school.This might seem foreign to you, but it was the way I was brought up. It wasn't so much that my parents hoped I would be a doctor. No, I was going to graduate from high school in the top of my class. I was going to attend NYU, but only if I failed to get into Columbia. And I was then going to go to medical.