For those that don't know, lupus is an autoimmune disease, sort of the opposite of AIDS where the immune system begins to attack itself. That results ...in inflammation, and eventually tissue damage.I watched my would-be customer turn a corner and turned back to the woman named Rose."Thanks..." Don't thank me. I just didn't want to lose one of my better customers."My stomach rumbled. "Well thanks anyway, I'm awfully hungry but I guess I'm not hungry enough for tube steak; are you going to buy me. By the time he left, Mandy and Traci were busy talking colors and patterns. Trusting them to not go too far, he left them alone and got on his bike for the short trip to the gym where they held the classes.On the way, he tried to work out why he was so nervous about the bedroom. It wasn't just the idea that he had never been allowed in there, but more like he was having to accept that his parents were moving on with their lives, and in some ways, he was being left out again. By moving into. As we walked to our car I saw a well-dressed distin- guished looking man — perhaps 60 — waiting on a bench near our car kind of peeping out from his Wall Street Journal at passersby. Between Carla’s little antics in the dressing room and the memories of this parking lot, I decided to just grab her and started kissing. I rested my back up against the car as she leaned against me. I opened one eye to peer at the man and saw him zeroed in on us with envy. Carla’s sweat. I wasn't all that interested in being polite with the woman that destroyed my life. I knew she would persist but she was going to have to work for it.I heard a soft sigh and then, "Please Michael, I really would like to talk to you and I'll ... I'll buy the coffee." I stared blankly at her for a moment and then relented."All right. But call me Mike. I don't go by Michael anymore."She rolled her eyes a bit and stated with a hint of arrogance, "I think I've earned the right to call you Michael if.