After eating and cleaning the kitchen, Sal, Micky, and Selma joined Mr. and Mrs. Mase in the living room. They settled down to watch television, but no one was paying much attention to the television. Mrs. Mase was knitting. Mr. Mase had the newspaper. He was looking at the headlines. Sal and Selma were sitting on the sofa. Micky was sitting in a chair close to them. Selma was listening to Sal and Micky talk. Mrs. Mase would glance at them and smile as she concentrated on her knitting.
“Your father was not from Cendera. How did he and your mother get together?” Micky asked Selma.
“They met in college. They had not been dating long when he moved into her apartment, and when she became pregnant, they decided to get married. I was three years old when she graduated, and they decided to retu
