"Stick with me and just do it," she advised. "You're a winner here!"Frieda always did make it easy for me to do brave things; I just had to stay with ...her and it would all work out ... We got organized on the front walk, then pranced to the front door; I pranced because I didn't dare stump like an elephant while Frieda pranced. I opened the door and Frieda faded to let me have the spotlight...Maureen and Judith just stood there with their eyes bugged out and their mouths open! I drifted right. *****She'd felt it. It had appeared somewhere in this building, seeking outand finding its new owner. Over the centuries she had waited, everpleading for a new start and being told that she must wait for the rightperson. She had spent countless days, covering thousands of miles,examining place after place and person after person. And each day,painful as it was, she'd ended resigned to the rightness of that higherpower's counsel. No one, anywhere, in any culture she'd visited, wasequipped to. Do you mind if I skipped this and went over to Carla’s house?”“Honey you’ve got to eat,” he said.“Dorothy said, “No let her go,” she turned to Melanie and added, “Take Katy with you. I’ll stay home and talk to dad.”Melanie said, “OK,” and just like that his two younger girls went upstairs to get ready to go out. He looked at Dorothy and asked, “You know something don’t you.”“Mom’s been awful busy,” she said, “and you remember when I went to her office before Thanksgiving for career. “What’s with you? Thought you enjoyed it, now your acting like you got out on the wrong side of the bed.” “This morning was different. The snow on my bedroom window and me in my warm bed. You waking me up the way you did. Now I’m tired, sore and cold. I need a cup of coffee.” “Get one when you get there. Cheer up, we’re doing the speed limit. It’s a beautiful morning. The sun and the snow all stuck to the tree branches. Looks like cotton candy. You should learn to appreciate mornings like this..