Mother s Delight
My mother called last night and asked me to stay for a week with her and my 12 year old sister Heidi. She said that my father was going away to Japan for a week-long business trip and she and Heidi were afraid to stay alone because there has been some burglaries in their exclusive neighborhood lately. I was only too glad to oblige. I spent half the night thinking about mother. She gave birth to me when she was 16, two years before she and father married. It was 12 years later that Heidi was...