Rumors have that the city sold the lot to a rich family and rezoned it to residential. The new owner of the lot renovated the fence that used to surr...ound the garden, and sprinkled stone columns every few feet in between. Curiously enough, they built a gate facing the direction of our house, not directly, but about 20 feet off to the west. I suppose they want easy access to the back road? That makes me uneasy, thinking that our new neighbor would spot me when... I refuse to dwell on that. Mom Two wasn’t sure it was a good idea.”Mom One was Jennifer. Mom Two was Josie. He’d come up with that shorthand when he’d started talking in complete sentences. One thing I knew for sure was that before I approved, I’d need to talk to Tanya or Dima about this, as well as place a call to St. Petersburg to talk with Vanya as well.“What I think is that you are asking the daughter of a former Soviet diplomat who is now a highly respected professor of International Relations, and of a retired. I'm sure that they will work it out and everything will be Ok again. Even if they don't, you know that they both love us and wouldn't do anything to hurt us. Neither Mom nor Dad would ever split us apart or try to cut the other one out of their lives. So I know that things will be alright. Trust me." I did my best to sound completely sincere and hoped that I had succeeded."I hope you're right. There's not much we can do about it anyway, I suppose." Rachel sounded a bit more cheerful, "Would you. Invite the press in. That’s Sally, Muriel Wake’s daughter and the reporter is Joey Sutherland.’ ‘Hi Mrs West. I’m now only known as Joe.’ ‘That’s fine Joey. Now get yourselves in here for coffee and cookies. I’ll call Nikki.’ Nikki entered the kitchen and said ‘Hi Joe’ and she and Sally hugged and kissed. Afterwards Nikki drove the GMC out and leaned against the front for the photograph with only snow and fences in the background. Joe said Mr Lancer was a vice-president of an insurance company.