I heard my mother and Kit clamber through the front door. They were laughing and shhh'ing each other. The office that they had both worked at had closed and they had been out on the last who-rah with their ex-coworkers. "I'm home, Paulie honey! Goodnight." My mother lovingly slurred. I then heard the door to her room shut. My mother and Kits talking eventually slowed and lowered until I did not hear them anymore. I went b...