Ed and I moved the highchairs before sitting down to eat. I had Carry near me, and she kept reaching out for some of what I was eating. I tore off a p...iece of buttered toast and mopped up some of the egg yolk on my plate with it, and gave it to her. From the smile on her face you would have thought that I had given her a great treasure. She took the piece of toast and immediately started nibbling on it after saying “Da!”. Both girls had a couple of teeth by now and could do fairly well on the. " My friends call me Britt. What do you do in government?" I work for the Secret Service." I met your boss the other day." Phil Maley?" No, I mean the President." I just don't believe you at all. I don't protect the President. I'm on the Vice President's team." I met him also the other day." Where did you meet him?" He was at the club I belong to with Speaker Tipp O'Neill. Senator Howard Baker introduced us." What night was that?" Wednesday around eight or nine I guess. I was leaving, and it. Rita sighed as she walked past him into the bedroom. ‘You might say that.’ Her mother was fussing with packing Rita’s things and mumbling about what all they needed to do before going back to Rome. Rita didn’t realize she had screamed at her mother until it was done. ‘Stop it! Nothing matters? Don’t you see? Just get out and leave me alone!!!’ She was sobbing as if her heart was breaking as her mother stared in shock. ‘RITA!!!’ Before his wife could finish, Rita’s father gently ushered her into. I stood up too, magically fullypresentable as the petticoats and dress fell back into place. She took meby the hand and led me along the corridor to the barn where the live bandwas playing. I struggled to keep up in the unfamiliar high heeled shoes but she justsaid, "You girls! Always wearing impractical footwear!"I was relieved that when we arrived in the brightly lit barn I wasn't theonly cross-dressd guy there, and with such a pretty girl to dance with,nobody was going to say I'd made a poor.