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you to feel obligated to repay him for it. Don’t get me wrong, I really
like Jerry, but I’m not ready to take that next big step with him. Not just
yet. You know what I mean, don’t you?”
    “Yeah,
I know. Stan has been pushing me to go there too. I want to, but I don’t want
to just yet. With Stan, you have to take him one day at a time. Your parents
always throw you the best birthday parties. I’m having a blast. Thank you for
letting me invite him.”
    “Oh,
you’re welcome. It wouldn’t have been a party without you!” Mary said.
    “I’m
gonna have to go soon. Have you seen the guys lately?”
    While
the girls were cleaning and visiting, their boyfriends had needed something to
keep them occupied, so Matt had taken advantage of the opportunity to herd them
into his radio room.
    Mary
stood like a model with one hand on her hip and the other bracelet-adorned arm
pointing to her father’s radio room. Putting on the Victorian accent once again,
she told Rosie, “Dahling, look there. Father has trapped them in his
radio room.” She was giggling as she continued putting on the accent. “He has a
bunch of old radio equipment in there. He calls it a ‘ham radio.’ He told me
that spies and spotters used to use them back in World War II. He can talk to
anyone around the world that has one of those. Mom says that when she married
him, she married his radio too. When I was little, he would be on his radio all
weekend. He’d stay up all night long, talking to people all over the world. It
bores me stupid. I guess it’s a guy thing. He’s so into his radio he even has a
generator out back in case the power goes out. You can see the radio antenna from
blocks away. I tell everyone, ‘Just look for the house with antenna. That’s
where I live.” She smiled good-naturedly. “Right now he has a captive audience.
He’s showing off for the guys. They look more interested in his radio than they
are in us. This happens every time we have a party in our house. Dad ends up in
his radio room with most of the men. Mom’s left to entertain her friends alone.
I guess it works for them. It won’t work for me. When we throw a party, my man
had better be with me.”
    Mary
took Rosie by her shoulder and walked her to the open door of her dad’s radio
room. As they walked, she told Rosie, “See, there they are. They haven’t run
away. Dad has them corralled in there. He even has some of them talking to
people on his radio. Guys get bored so quickly. They have to be doing something
all the time.”
    Rosie
sighed as she shrugged her shoulders. She put her hands on her hips. She sighed
as she spoke. “Look at them. They are almost drooling. Our dog at home looks
like that when it’s time to feed him. When Stan looks at me like that, I know
what he wants. When he knows that I’m not giving in, he pouts. Every time we go
somewhere if I don’t keep him on a short leash close to me something will get
his attention. Then he just walks away to look at whatever it is that he is
looking at. It could be a rock or a car or something else. Stan has such a
short attention span. Are they all like him? Look, Stan is talking on the
radio. Do you ever get to talk on your Dad’s radio?”
    Mary
wrinkled up her nose at Rosie. “Eww! No, not any more. He used to make me sit
next to him for hours while he was on that thing. Every weekend it was the same
thing. He worked so hard to get me to talk to people I didn’t know, and I hated
it. He’d have me talk to this guy in England or that guy in Chile. Mom kind of
gave up on trying to get him to spend more time with us. I guess it’s a guy thing.”
She smiled.
    “Finally,
to get out of having to spend every weekend on the radio, I told mom that I had
homework. She told him he had to let me do homework instead. It worked. I
haven’t been on his radio since.”
    “That
was smart!” Rosie said. “Hey, did Cori and Teddy go home? I haven’t seen them
in a while.”
    Mary
smiled. She