. oh, Ah don't know..." She sank into the plastic chair beside her and broke into sobs.Of course I felt like an ass. "Look, why don't you go up there ...and get him and bring him down here. I've got some iced tea. We can sit and talk some more and maybe work something out."She wiped her eyes with the back of her hand and trudged up the drive like a broken spirit. When she came back with the carrier and bag of baby supplies, I showed her into the kitchen and had her sit at the table. She picked up. We were given assignments for Tuesday through Thursday and told that assignments would be suspended for the coming weekend for the sweet sixteen. This was definitely a situation where sports became more important than learning.Wednesday night the country club was having a reception and dinner for the basketball team. I was thinking this was a little over the top, but Dan assured me that it was just alums showing their appreciation.Coach had us working hard. Our first opponent was going to be. A few weeks ago she got home from work and asked me to sit down , she said 'you know like you let me be with the guy of the internet ?' i said yes , she said well my friend karen from work has told me that her and her husband do the same thing and wondered if we would like to join them one night and you and karens husband mike watch us both , It sounded good ,so i agreed almost instantly , then she said 'oh and there is one more thing the guy karen meets is black , and his friend probably will. Maria, my main girl was pregnant…I would need to replace her soon. In comes this 27 year- old knockout, looking for work. She had been abused in Mexico, both by her dad and her husband. She had been living on the streets in Mexico since age 12, gotten married at 15, had two children and her husband ran off with another woman…leaving her alone, with two kids. She left her kids with family and made the trek to America. Truthfully, she had a forged id card and the Government wasn’t cracking down.
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