If there had been any, she would have called off the whole weekend right there on the spot. But all she felt from him was love – enough love to let ...er go off for the weekend with another man and not worry about whether or not she’d come home to him. She stood on the sidewalk and watched them pull away, her daughter waving frantically from the back window. Doug’s plane wasn’t supposed to land for another twenty minutes so she was in no real rush. It was a leisurely stroll out to the gate and. ‘Santa is as real as you and I,’ my mother says whenever I start to lose faith. I live, eat and breathe Christmas. And I’ve always tried to be nice, not naughty. And every Christmas Eve I religiously leave Santa milk and cookies on the table near the fireplace. And as a reward, up until I was 26, Santa left presents under my tree every single Christmas! Not just any old presents, but the presents I asked for in the letters I sent to him at the North Pole. But, Santa’s got a funny sense of. Earl had scheduled my first day on a Friday, but I didn't argue with him. I just set my alarm clock to wake me at 5 AM. I was out the door for my morning ride by 5:15. It was a good six mile an hour bike at its worst, so I expected to make it to breakfast by roughly 6 AM. I would have to eat in a hurry, but I should be able to do it.I ordered a breakfast biscuit and left with it in the bag. I ate it sitting on the bike so I could get a quick start. I choked it down because I had to be at the. “It takes quite a bit to upset it.”They reached the front door and Felicia unlocked it. “Now, the DNA results, Mom?” Nichelle asked.“All right — here they are. Bear in mind this isn’t proof positive of anything.” She handed them each an envelope.Kit opened his and Nichelle opened hers. “Put them side-by-side. The sequences in red are those you have in common.”“I’m seeing some red, but not a huge amount,” Kit said.“There is more than you’d expect for a random black girl and a random white dude..