She'd gone through her high school graduation all smiles and acting as if John's leave-taking hadn't affected her at all. But at home she spent her ti...me in bed or curled up on the couch watching old movies on TV. This morning she was eating cold cereal while vacantly starring at the cereal box and wondering how you made those kernels of corn into flakes anyway, when her mother came in."Morning dear," said her mom, pouring coffee."Hi Mom" Sleep well?" Not really," Donna sighed.Her mother sat. I squinted my eyes at the neon glow on the clock radio that got two stations on a good day and saw that it was 2:30 in the morning.Brad let out a sigh and said, “Mom, they are at it again. I can’t sleep with them doing it in the same room and making the bedsprings squeak. I let them know I was awake, but Carol just told me to leave, enjoy the show or go back to sleep. She is being a brat about it.”“I will talk to your sister in the morning. Okay?” I didn’t think through my next statement. ‘Ain’t you told me before that you have a girl friend?’ he asked. I said, ‘Yeah, man.’ He asked, ‘How’s that work with what you got there?’ Me: ‘I just want someone prettier than me to talk with before supper.’ The PA announces dinner’s end in twenty minutes. And the memory is swiftly forgotten. My friends had seen the blonde, I discover when I meet them for dinner. I highly suspected I imagined everything. They all have veal and macaroni, I order fried chicken. I tell them the story. They. Peterson. As far as I've been able to calculate, it will be close to a million dollars." Right you are, Mr. Hansen. Now, I'm in no way trying to say that they are not very well deserved, because they are. You have really raised the company profits considerably. But a sum as large as that has made me wonder, if we could negotiate some other way to show our appreciation of your excellent work." Mr. Peterson, that might very well be possible. But then I shall have to tell you of a new development,.