“Care to elaborate? Help me understand?”“We anticipated many outcomes, never settling on just one,” the Goji continues willingly. “It turned... out McKinsey was stronger emotionally than we perceived. It was Bowling and Stanos that were weak. Weakness is what is not tolerated. Weakness is what ruins well laid plans. Weakness is forgetting your place.”“It certainly doesn’t sound like a victory,” the gangster mumbles.“By our plan failing, it only made our goals come together,” The creature says,. “Too big ... Too yellow ... Too shiny...” Kim said as she grabbed a dress and examined it, one by one, all the dresses were disqualified and tossed aside. After a long time, Kim popped out of the closet with two dresses that might, just might, be adequate for Britina’s visit.One was a long, black dress with a low cut and deep cleavage, not that Kim had much to fill the cleavage with. The other, a more modest pink dress that reached the floor. Kim thought to herself for a moment, “Which one? why. .. still love Mattie and me if you have your own kids?” I reached to hug her. I hadn’t considered this response, but I had to be sure to alleviate her fears.I grabbed her into a willing hug. “Hanna, I already love you and Mattie no differently than if I’ve always been your dad! That will never change.”“Promise?” she whimpered.“That’s a big promise. And I will never break that promise!”“Okay,” she said. “You can marry Mom.” She pulled back, now much happier. “Can I call you Dad?”“Nothing would. "I might be busy. It depends on how certain things work out," I finally improvised. Crystal let go of my arm."Well, I think it's going to be a lot of fun," Teah proclaimed. "Now, what about The Program? I still think we should all sign up to be together." And to prove it, she produced a pack of signup forms."I don't know," said Dan."I'd rather wait," said Ben."Well, look, how about if we all fill out the form but leave the date blank? It'll probably be a while before they get around to us, and.