After Canella took a deep breath and slowly let it out, she floored me by saying, “I shut you out of my life then because I became pregnant with you...r child ... and didn’t want you to quit on your dream of going down south for your graduate degrees. I uh, I would have eventually told you about all that, but I ... had a still-born son at six months. I could hardly think straight for a long time after that. Then, when I talked with your Uncle Eddie at Kinkora in 1986, he told me you loved it down. Chuck looked over at his sister with a longing look in his eyes and finally said, “Joanie, about last December, you know when we…”“I know, I know what we did,’ she interrupted him bring up the subject. “Did he think that he had to remind me,” she thought to herself.“Joanie, I’m trying to apologize for forcing you to do it with me,” he blurted out.A looked of total disbelief came over her face hearing this come out of his mouth. “He wanted to apologize, he didn’t really want to do it at all?”. At one time, the three of us rose to "powder our noses" and headed forthe ladies room.Our small talk lead to pointed questions once we were alone. "So are youtwo and item?" "Andy is such a fine gentleman, you're a lucky girl." And"If he weren't yours and I was single, you would have to watch out." Iknew the boys were probably saying similar thing about us, from previousexperience. This side of the conversation seemed so much more naturalthough. I had never liked the male side much. I guess. Just friggin peachy, she said aloud, lighting a few candles. The bright flashes were toned down by the curtains over the windows. The thunder didnt seem to be as loud as it was when she was in her room. In fact, the thunder seemed to sing her to sleep. A frantic knock on the door woke her up. Samantha thought it was her mother and quickly opened the door. To her surprise, it was not her mother but a man. He forced his way into the house, apologizing as he did so. He was not that bad looking,.