..”“She never waits up. Never waits up. Want to bet she’s waiting up tonight?” He nodded toward the house. Lights were on downstairs, and in o...ne of the windows upstairs.“What’s that prove?” I pulled into his driveway.“That she’s not waiting up for me. Want to make a bet?”“I lost enough money already tonight, already,” I said.“Double or nothing?”“Godammit, Aaron,” I said. “No!”A shadow crossed the downstairs window nearest the door; a blind tipped up.“That means nothing,” I said.Aaron only. "What are you talking about Marge, he just bought her a ring for her birthday," Don said."Men!" Anne said. "He is going to ask her to go steady with him."Don and Marc both shook their heads. "So what's the big deal?" Marc asked."It's a very big deal daddy," Sally said. "It means that Jack won't go out with another girl and he wants Megan to only date him."The two men chuckled and made a couple remarks about monogamy. The women chastised them for their crude remarks, telling them that it is very. . I mean Richard; my father.It was him I screamed at.”I gaped at her, “Your own Father?”“And I must tell you now Dick; He was your father also.I was still gaping!You see your dad wasn’t your natural father. You were sired by Richard; when I was seventeen.”She paused to give it a chance to sink in.“You mean ... your father ... Richard, made me?”“Yes Dick. My own father got me pregnant when I was seventeen; when I had already met your dad at the College Hop.We’d began dating; it was romantic and. When I started the company, at the age of 24, it was me and my partner Robert ‘Bert’ Kelly, 48, and Gloria Swim, 45. My name is Mick O’Dell and I am the brains of the outfit. No, that’s BS. I am the idea man. I am the one who says “Let’s do this!”. Bert is the one who tells me if it can or can’t be done. If he says it can’t be done, I ask what do we have to do to do it?Gloria was the zookeeper. She was the one who calmed down the fights and fired us up the times we felt lost. As the company.