Lost Boys

"How long did it take you to learn it?"

"I'm still learning it,'.' said Je

"Why don't they just say what they mean?"

"Confrontation!" cried Je

"Well, I always say what I think, and I prefer it when other people do, too."

"Of course," said Je

"Was that cowboy talk?" asked DeA

"Trust me," said Je

"So we do her job," said DeA

"Hey, it's the Lord's work and it needs to be done and we can do it."

"You're more of a Christian than I am."

"So do you want to make the salad or the casserole?"

"I'd like to make the biscuits."

"Not a chance," said Je

"They just look like Bisquick drop biscuits to me," said DeA

"Don't ever say Bisquick around the women of the ward. Might as well sew a scarlet B on your dress after that."

"Salad, then," said DeA

So instead of resting, DeA

The family they took di

"Step's against taking Stevie to anybody like that," said DeA

"Men," said Je

"Well, there's some reason for it, but he never says," said DeA

"Does he have some relative who's a shrink?" asked Je

"No," said DeA

"I mean, I have an uncle who's a real estate agent and so I hate all real estate agents. I just see one and I want to go get my gun."

"Because of your own uncle?"

"The sleazeball of all sleazeballs," said Je

"Well, he's got no shrinks in his family, anyway," said DeA

"So," said Je

"I said, Step won't do it."

"You're at home," said Je

DeA

"If Spike ever dared to put his foot down and forbid me to do something that I knew my child needed, hell yes!"

"Well Step didn't put his foot down," said DeA

"Well then what's the problem?" asked Je

DeA

"I can see it now," said Je

"It's not like that," said DeA

After a minute, Je

"What?" asked DeA

"You're going about sixty and this is a thirty- five zone."

It was true. DeA

"Look, be mad at me if you want," said Je

DeA

young man whose mother isn't a member but she drives him to church."

"That's the one," said Je

"Why, because she's no good?"

"Because she's a woman," said Je

"Understand what?"

Je

"Not true," said DeA

"Have you ever taken the Mi

DeA

"It's got questions all over it like, Do you believe that God sometimes talks to you? I mean, that's our whole religion, isn't it? That God still talks to human beings. And by their rules it means we're crazy!"

For the first time DeA

"What I'm saying," said Je