Feeling just a tad Oprahish, I take a deep breath and ask Brigid if she loved her mother.

She would giggle silently and nudge the girl next to her, and so it would go; Rocco would be shaking his mutton dagger at every girl in class.

His angle is that he gets a percentage, but mostly in trade.

We have a high incidence of mispitches by the USPS which further adds to the delay.