Great. Tina turned to me, and I gave her a slight nod. What the heck, I may as well get this over with. Who knows? I was wrong about Tina. Maybe Ga...il would be a pleasant surprise. Maybe. Tina gave Gail what I guess was supposed to be a secret signal to be cool, and invited her in. "Gail, this is Kim. She's going to be living here from now on." "Hi! Welcome to the neighborhood." She came right up to me and gave me a hug. This is something I never imagined as a boy. Boys don't hug, don't. Let's go out to eat."I took her arm in mine and escorted her to the car opening the passenger door for her while she slid in. She had an expression on her face like a princess being ushered into a royal carriage. I went around and got in the driver's side and belted in. I started the car and pulled out odf the driveway. She asked me "Where are you taking me dad?" I simply replied "You'll see." As I was driving along I heard her click her seatbelt open and then slide over next to me putting on. Alone at stage left I stuck out even more than I had. I was like a sore thumb, a naked pink sore thumb, a very tall naked pink sore thumb.It was as naked as I'd ever felt in my life.At that moment I wanted to melt down into a steaming puddle. My carefully assembled extemporaneous speech was a train wreck.With a comforting touch Mrs. Devers moved to take over at the podium. The rest of the dignitaries were still on their feet, obviously in on the plot, probably enjoying my predicament in view of. It had already been watched four or five times by him this week and by now he knew it off by heart.As the foreman of the building site, Terry ensured that he had all footage from the various security cameras emailed directly to him. Using special software he could tell at a glance if the film was just 24 hours of still images, or if there was more to be checked out on there. The night cameras at the site itself were almost always undisturbed, save for a few blips made by stray cats leaping.