I Give My Niece A Ride_(0)
I Give My Niece A Ride It was 10:00 P.M. on Saturday night when the phone rang. We, or rather my wife, were watching a real tearjerker on cable. I was in the same room but my mind had drifted off when the sound of the phone brought me back to reality. I got up to answer the phone while my wife looked up with a mixture of annoyance and concern on her still pretty face. I didn’t recognize the number from the caller i.d. “Hello” I said into the receiver. I could hear crowd noise on the other end of the line. “Uncle Mark hello can you hear me? It’s Jessica” came the voice in my ear. Jessica was my older brother’s teenaged daughter who I had last seen a month ago at a …