The area had declined for years and now housed low income families, mostly black but a few white and Hispanic families could be found. She and her hus...band knew the area because they volunteered on weekends at a food bank in the area. She had no safety worries, although the people were poor there was no gang activity and very little drug dealing. As she cruised down the street she did not she the large pothole hidden by the snow. Suddenly the car lurched, the steering wheel twisted in her hands. A few days have pass and its now the Friday night I whent to the beer store and grab a 28 of Canadian beer 5.0 vol I wasn't a specking him to come over that night cuz he said he had some family thing to do. so I got home and his car was in the driveway when I pulled in he was still in the his car I got out with the case of beer and he oh your drinking tonight eh I said yea just a few thou hes I grab a case too well I guess we are getting drunk tonight then eh he said yes he was depress on his. Didn’t talk to her though.’ ‘Might be worth getting in touch with her,’ Monica said. A quick search brought up the contact details for Lydia Goldman, and she dashed off a quick email, a brief outline of the situation and a request for a meeting. Another yawn forced its way out, so huge she thought her jaw would break. ‘I’m calling it a night.’ Fran looked around the office. ‘Just you and me here,’ she said. ‘So much for the ‘stronger’ sex.’ Her fingers punctuated her sentence with imaginary. "Your brother is in the room right down the hall," the school secretarysaid.She found Nicole with a fat lip. She appeared to have a black eye."It looks like you have a pretty good shiner, sweetpea," Amanda said,taking a wet cloth from the nurse and wiping Nicole's wounds."I'm sorry mom," Nicole replied."Tell me what happened," Amanda said."Some boys were picking on me in P.E.," Nicole said. "They kept calling mea sissy. I told them to stop."One of the boys, a rather large one, told Nicole to.