I don't need anyone else.” Then we kissed again and just cuddled for a little while longer in silence as my head went back to her shoulder. At the n...ine minute mark, her hands brought my face to her's. "Just promise me you'll never ever cut me out of your life, Tiffany. I know I'm only your step mom, but I'm in my forties now and I never had any kids of my own. You are all I have and I can't lose you. If you get even semi serious with a someone, I want you to bring them home so I can meet them. Still, after the experience of being the odd one out in high school, I wasn’t judgemental. I was cautious, but not judgemental. Like about 70% of the campus, she was white. My parents couldn’t really believe that the whites were still the majority due to the swarming groups of Asians we saw on campus. I figured that they hung out together for the same reason I hung out with the two other Asian kids at my high school along with the punk rock and other ‘weird’ kids, to find a sense of belonging. A book published in 1857 had a whole chapter on the exploits of Lancaster County's two Mexican War heroes. They both attended West Point. John Randolph was 14 when he started, Randolph Luther was 17.They graduated in 1837 with half a dozen other young men who became famous as generals in the Civil War. The boys did well at the academy. They ranked high enough to get posted to the artillery after graduation. The top of each class became engineers, the next brightest went to the artillery.. The decision to move to the homestead was so that I could forget her and her new family. I just wanted to be alone for a while.Since I had paid the two hundred bucks and change to the county tax office every year, it was mine free and clear. I never did ask for a new evaluation of the place, even though I could have. It was worth nothing at all in my opinion, but I knew the tax department didn’t want to hear that.On the night before my visit to the hospital parking lot I had check into the West.