Then she asked me the same question. I told her mostly because of work and also this being a small town their are still some small minded people and b...eing one of few black males doesn't help. She said that if they knew you like I do, that thought chain would die, and she said that with a wink. Then for her the gloves come off. She straight out asked me why would I want to walk around with nothing but a t-shirt on. I could come up with a good answer fast enough, so I head to tell the truth. I. One afternoon we were rehearsing for a sellout crowd of eighteen thousand that evening. A couple of dozen roadies were setting up for the concert. We'd done all the sound level checks of the various microphones and band instruments, so we'd gone to an interior room to go over the concert program, song by song. We had a relaxed rehearsal with a lot of repartee with each other and the band as we got into the late afternoon.While there were many people coming and going in our rehearsal room that. .”“Antoinette won’t have a problem with it,” Wendy said. “She was urging me to take a longer vacation and promised me I would always have a job with her if I wanted one.”Andrea was pensive.“Baby?” Galena said. “What are you thinking?”Andrea looked up.“I’m thinking ... I’ve been scrambling and working and worrying for so long getting the business off the ground, growing it, all the shit with my ex, finding you and a lifestyle I’d never imagined... “I could use a nice long vacation,” Andrea. Jenny was reading another of my dad's Economist magazines, Elizabeth a textbook. I told them I expected to be back around ten or eleven, got in my car and drove across town to Sue Ellen's.I was, it turned out, in time to catch the tail end of breakfast and Sue Ellen was happy to zap a couple of waffles in the microwave and pour me a glass of orange juice.The three of us talked about school, about Sue Ellen going back to being a cheerleader, which Tony seemed to really like. Finally, I did what.