"We could always hang out together," Karen said. "I'm sure your bratty little sister would give you a dance or two."Day 192 Sunday, May 1Patty, Karen,... and mom decided they were going into the city today to look at Prom dresses. After they left, I decided to go over and visit with Claude for a while. Claude and I had grown even closer since Martha's death. At first I thought of him as Karen's dad. Then I started thinking of him as someone I wished had been my father. Now I thought of him as a. “Why don’t you come along with me?”“You really want me to?”“Of course I do, Juliana. You should know by now that I don’t say things out of pity and all that rot. Anyway, my sister says you can come along.”“Your sister?” I knew Dina had a sister, who was about three years older, and who lived on the farm. I didn’t know that she had any say in who came visiting, though. “Don’t your parents have anything to say about it?”Dina laughed with delight. “My parents are going to ____________ (a certain. Salem, a Calico cat waited at the front door and followed him into the kitchen. "We've been invited to be on some game show." "The game show is to test the knowledge of mothers and daughter teams," Paul's mom said as she took the letter and read it. "It's a shame I don't have a daughter instead of son." "It would have been nice to be on the show," Paul sighed as he went to a room covered in space movie posters and had models of aliens in the head board cupboard of his bed. A glimmering look. When things beganto wind down, we met at the bar for one last drink.Both of us were pretty tipsy but not drunk. I had noticed Nikky a few years before at anotherreunion in New Mexico. We were at a water park and mandid she look good in a bikini. She stood about 5’8 andI’m bad at judging how heavy a person is but she wasdamn near perfect, not skinny, and by no means fat. Herbody reminded me of the girl from Dr. No, UrsulaAndrews. And her ass, was well, art. Nikky was ALWAYStan and.