”She nodded.“When my mother died my father wasn’t the same. He died a couple months after.” Luca felt Kay’s hand on his. “He always told m...e when you find the right woman you will know. Don’t fight it. Embrace it. Your love can be taken away so fast.” He looked up at Kay she had tears in her eyes. “But my father had so much heartache and pain over my mother’s death. I told myself I never wanted that to happen to me. I didn’t want my heart to be torn apart like that. I watched him suffer through. Rita, strumming her ukulele, said, "Phil told me how big you and he made it."Blushing, Susie nodded. "He's sweet." His mood was so high that this morning, when his old boss phoned and asked him to do a special repair job on a business machine, he accepted. You certainly snapped him out of his fag- fear mood."Susie paused in unhitching her bra. "Then he's not here?" she asked, disappointed."No, but Howard, my husband, is, and dying to meet you. So's everyone, after how Phil talked. By the way,. Even dressed again in her unflattering, fluffy robe, Mommy looked amazingly sexy especially with what I would come to think of as her 'just been well fucked' glow.That was the year I got the nice laptop, which I'd been wanting since school had started. Dad, still looking bleary-eyed with sleep and maybe a little magic Santa dust, just shook his head and said, "Damn, Christina, I just can't figure out how you make our Christmas club money go so far."Mommy beamed at me as I oohed and ahhed over. "Ooh, yes please!" she exclaimed. "I like that."After lunch Becca asked Nicky if she would do the washing up while she returned the van and the house keys. "We'll go and exercise Garry after that. I'll tell you about him in the car."She was back in half an hour and she and Nicky set off again for the children's home. Becca outlined Garry's story. Nicky was filled with admiration."How do you manage to fit in helping Garry with work?" she asked."Oh, we all do it," said Becca carelessly. "We build.