Edward had asked about her name. What was the origin and the meaning? Unusual, but it has a nice sound. Kind of like Mahalia. Michaela had lifted her shoulders, helplessly. I have no idea. My mother said she read it somewhere and liked the sound. And she didn't want me to have a name like everyone else. She said she thought I was going to be special.

Her police officer brother was strong, formidable, and seven years Cane's senior, but there was no beating her fake fiancé when it came to general bad-assery.

If there was no consensus on tapabocas, I thought I might at least find a safe midpoint between overreactions and underreactions.

On April 11, in a tense news conference during a period when the looting dominated the news, Rumsfeld dismissed the media by calling them “Henny Pennies,” a reference to a children's tale in which the main character runs around, declaring that the sky is falling.