"Like I could forget?!?" I asked with a bit of incredulity. I wastesting for my second degree black belt tonight! I just hoped I couldmanage to pass t...his test. If I could get this belt, then I would be ableto really think about teaching in my own studio after I graduatedcollege. After this belt though I would no longer be able to just testat home, I would be flying to major cities or maybe even to Korea! Forsomething I had been practically forced to do at the start, I had reallygrown a love of. When I read one of those cardboard baby books myself for the first time, Kate lifted me up and gave me a kiss on both cheeks. I was really, really, really really, happy.Kate taught me a lot of other things too, like colors and numbers and now to write stuff. She tried to teach me to draw, but I suck at that. She tried to teach me to play piano. That I can do. Her mother was in prison, I still don't know for what, so she lived with us, and basically became my big sister. She was bossy. Very. My heart had almost stopped at thebeauty of it. after saying good night to my parents, I laid in bed for awhile dreaming about it.In the morning, my Dad told me he had a special present for me for beingso good. Tammy was going too. I thought of all the things it could be,but couldn't guess. I should have been able to from Tammy and I talkinglast night, but couldn't. But, when we pulled up to a part of town wheresome of the streets were blocked off for filming, I started to smile. . She stood there for a second, wringing her hands, obviously debating what to say. Finally she burst out into tears and started babbling. I gathered from what I could pick out that she had been thrown out of her parents house this morning and didn't know what she was going to do.I calmed her down, had her sit in my office till she had composed herself again, and told her that if she hadn't worked it out by that afternoon she could come up to my office and I'd see what I could do.She did come up.