I know I've hurt mum and dad but Ithought that if I simply resigned I would let everyone down."This irritated me, slightly sharper than I intended I r...eplied, "you meanby your own high standards you would let everybody down, really Sophie,you never considered mum and dad, they are so hurt, so lost" now I wasweeping!We sat in silence for a while, each engrossed in our own thoughts, thesomewhat shyly Sophie (for that is who she is now) asked me, "I supposeyou are going to tell mum and dad?"I. He sucked and played. Then he began moving back and forth between them when his right hand wandered down to her stomach and he placed it there, palm down. She felt him stop playing and looked him, realizing where his hand was and that he was looking directly at her. She looked into his eyes and he could see them swelling up again. Then he spoke. “You know what me being home now means, right?” She smiled in the realization of what he had just said. Her smile continued to grow as tears of her own. Fractions suck of course, but they beat percentages all to hell in my estimation. Some folks, including a few I went to school with, swear that mathematics is the unifying language of the universe; the only true, accurate and precise way to define or describe anything.They are, of course, out of their tiny fucking little minds.Mathematics is nothing more or less than another human system devised to define, label and otherwise try and make some kind of sense out of our perceptions; an attempt at. He was dressed in a white button down shirt, blue blazer, dark blue pants, and black loafers.Mr. Johansson smiled, reached out and shook my hand thanking me for watching the girls. He then excused himself and made his way back toward their bedroom and closed the door. Mrs. Johansson reached into her purse and pulled a few bills to hand to me and thanked me for staying so late. I waived off the money and told her she could catch me next time. She smiled.********Forward to the spring of 1973, my.