Wilson offered to give her some time on her own, but she insisted he stay. They finished the pancakes; he then drove back to school to pick up his wor...k and to give the assistant principal some bullshit excuse as to why he blew off the end of the school day.The next day, come eigth period, neither Scarlet nor Mr. Wilson could concentrate on the lesson. When the bell rang, the other students all left, Scarlet remaining in her seat, staring at her desk.She slowly raised her eyes until they met. “I'd cut myself. You do it, daddy.”It was my turn to be shocked. I'd fought very hard all these years, ever since she entered puberty at age 11, to avoid any kind of inappropriate thoughts about my daughter. Up to this point, I'd been successful. But the thought of giving my daughter a bikini trim brought all sorts of thoughts, unbidden, to my mind.“I can't, baby,” I said. “It wouldn't be right. I'm your father.”I suggested we find a salon where she could get a bikini wax. Then I had to explain. Let's make sure tonight is special since we won't see each other for a while after tonight." Steve, what are we going to do after tonight?"I rolled over on my back, "It seems to me we have a choice. One: we break this off after tonight and just consider this one of those things that happened. You go on with your life and I go on with mine and we remember the wonderful time we have had over the last few days."Carrie said, "What else can we do?"I said, "While you were in the bathroom at the. Monday morning Penny and I were at the factory before John even got there. The plant manager took them tore of the plant, lots of machines with digital displays. Jim Perkins the plant manager tells them their work force is about seventy percent Hispanic, but they were somewhat slower than the English-speaking employees. As we walked down the lines of machines, I noticed all displays were in English. I asked Jim if the displays on the machines can be set to read out in Spanish, he said he didn’t.