Mom was wearing a regular t-shirt under the tie-dyed shirt but that was all. For the first time in my life, I really saw my new mother, the braless on...e.---------------------------------------"You won't find anything around here to make a career out of," Dad said the same thing for the third time using different words."I know, Dad. I get it. I'm just going to get my shit together for a couple of months and then get my name out there." Get your shit together? That's just great. Your mother's. She said something about liking bikes. That was all I needed to hear. A hot looking brunette with big brown eyes in a pair of tight fitting jeans coming up to me and telling me she likes bikes. My life took a turn for the better in a heartbeat. It was as if I won the life lottery. We started dating. Concerts, bars and trips to the Jersey shore became the norm. I loved it. She loved it. Everything seemed perfect that summer of 1981.Sandra had a real effect on one young man. Before I met Sandra I. ."Jim interrupted Frankie by scooping him up, and planting a raspberry right on his belly button. The boy was laughing uncontrollably with the play by his father. Finally, when Frankie had calmed down, he found his father had carried him onto the balcony."Daddy, why do you come out here in the morning?"Jim replied, "You mean you don't know, yet, why I am marrying Gloria?"In the typical shrugging response of a young child, Frankie replied, "No. Why would I ask, if I knew?" Well, then, why don't. " I know." Do you? Does Fay?" Know that Luci is in love with me? If she doesn't now, she will by the end of the day." You don't seem concerned by that, Gary." Concerned that Luci is in love with me or concerned that Fay will find out that Luci is in love with me?" I shook my head. "Patricia, I could tell you the story of my life with Fay and I don't think you would either believe me or begin to understand when I say that Fay knows Luci is in love with me for the same reasons that Nikki is in.