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of dread suddenly washed over her.
    "Angela, baby ... you're gettin' upset over nothing honey. Your dad has full custody of you, your mother signed you over to us. She's just wanting to have you some while we're here that's all. Your mother loves you, don't be like this. Don't hurt her like this Angela."
    "I don't wanna hurt her, but I don't want to leave you! Please, please, please promise me Sylvia, you won't let them try and keep me here!"
    "Aaah my precious baby, look at you. Come on up here, sit on my lap." She pat it instructing her. Angela readily complied climbing up as Sylvia gathered her in close against her, holding her as if she were a baby, rocking her, kissing her brow. "You my baby now. No one is keeping you any where you don't want to be, okay? I promise you, as long as you want to be with me, you'll be with me. So calm down, everything will be okay. We're here to have fun and that's exactly what we're going to do. When its time to go, we're all going together. Promise ... I love you little girl, you know that? Hm? I couldn't love you more if I'd had you. Now cheer up. Everything is going to be okay." Sylvia stroked her hair back from her brow, kissed her there again, holding her. It would seem, Angela was in no hurry to move from her lap, instead, she wrapped her arms more tighter around Sylvia and stayed there. Sylvia held her, looked up at her daughter.
    Crystal was gazing at her with a slight smile on her face.
    "We, they, us ... together, we really are made for each other, aren't we mama?" Crystal asked softly, thinking about herself just the night before with Shawn, how she'd needed him then, now Angela, before her, needing her mother.
    "Most - definitely." Sylvia agreed quietly, kissing Angela's forehead gently, over and over again as she held and rocked her.
     
    *
     
    Madison, Wi.
     
    Reginald Clarke stood in the alleyway, more lawn green than an actual alley, staring at his garage door. The wood was rotted, the roof needed doing and right now, he and his kids, wife included had been cleaning up the garage of all their boxes, wrapping paper, newspaper and other refuse accumulated from unpacking due to the move. They'd been working all morning just about and through most of the afternoon to get it done. His wife wasn't happy about the fact that they'd missed church to stay home and get it done. Yet, he wanted to get it cleaned up because they were both off of work that day and he couldn't seem to spare a few hours for Sunday service when it was back to work the next day. Therefore, they remained home and finished cleaning up the garage and yard. Problem, now that it was all done, he couldn't get the garage door to close. The hinges, rack and cable pulley used to close it was hung up because the frame was rotted allowing the brace to pull away every time he attempted to pull the door down.
    "Goddammit! It's always something! Shit! How I'm gone close this back down now?" He muttered talking to himself even though Ma'Keiba stood next to him watching. Her eyes straying down the way towards another yard where activities were going on, hoping to catch sight of a certain person and then back to her father. Her mother had gone back into the house to cook supper and her little brothers were in the basement on their Nintendo again. They were addicted to the game, which suited her just fine, that kept them out of her hair.
    "Maybe if I hold that side, you can get it closed, daddy."
    "Not safe, you just stay back out the way." He grumbled, trying to pull it down again, this time, he made it worse, the glider bracket gave way and bent on him, making the whole door shift out of place and to the left. Now, it was officially busted.
    "Son-of-a-bitch!"
    "Now what?" She asked, "You gone have to fix that or we can't close the garage."
    "No shit she'lock! How you suppose I do that?"
    "Go buy some wood maybe and fix it?"
    "You got some go buy some wood money? It ain't in the budget this week after all we spent moving and