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where her twelve-year-old daughter, Fiona, waited patiently for her turn with Mom.
    She favored her mother more, but Toni thought she favored John as well. Fiona smiled with her beautiful brown eyes as she hugged and kissed her goodnight.
    "I love you, too, Baby Girl! Sweet dreams."
    "I love you! Sweet dreams!"
    She descended the ladder and went back to the kitchen, so she could finish the laundry and dishes. She marveled at how long she had been surviving on her own, but she was never sure how much longer she could go on.
    She remembered thinking she would die from the sadness when her dear husband had been killed while she was pregnant with Johnny. But she had somehow made it through.
    She had two sisters and a half-brother, but they were all in the military, so she never got to see them as much as she would like. And they were all too far away to help her much.
    John had been her high school sweetheart. They started dating sophomore year. Junior year she got pregnant. Even though the timing was terrible, they had still been happy to meet their first child. They got married, he finished high school, but she dropped out.
    Her husband had been a plumber's apprentice who was right on the verge of getting his journeyman's license. They had always agreed that kids do best when one parent could stay home and take care of the family while the other one earned a living, but for a long time, they had not had that luxury, so Toni had needed to wait tables to make ends meet. They were very much looking forward to John being able to bring home enough money that Toni would not have to work.
    When she had Fiona, she had to go back to work when the baby was four-weeks old. Oh, how she had hated that! Leaving her sweet baby girl every day to go wait on a bunch of strangers just did not make any sense to her. But with the new baby, she was going to be able to do what felt natural, stay home and take care of her babies.
    When John died, Toni's parents were no help to her at all. They were divorced when she was young, and continued making everyone's lives miserable. They fought constantly and moved around a lot. And the last thing she needed was more people to care for and worry about.
    John had worked for a terrific man, Joe Pedrotti. Joe really had a lot of respect for John, and took it upon himself to look after Toni and the kids. His wife, Betty, was a nice lady. She was a great cook and would often invite them over for home cooked meals on Sunday. Toni enjoyed her hospitality, and the kids liked going there, too.
    Joe knew that Toni could not make enough money to cover living expenses waiting tables, plus the schedule would be sporadic. That would make things much more difficult for her raising the kids alone, so he gave Toni a job as a plumber's helper. And even though he got called out at all hours, he would only let her work Monday through Friday during business hours.
    When her baby was born, Betty baby sat Fiona and took good care of Toni and baby Johnny. She was always willing to pick them up from daycare or school when they were sick. That had been very helpful.
    She was grateful to have the Pedrottis in her life. She cringed when thought about where they might be now without them.
    When she finally finished up, she went back into the bedroom. Both children were sleeping. She stood for a moment and thought about how angelic they looked when they were asleep and how much she loved them. She crawled into her own bed. Well, she did not really have a bed. It was more like just a twin-sized mattress on the floor, but it did not matter to her what it looked like as long as she got some well-earned rest on it.
    After dropping the kids off at school, Joe and Toni pulled up outside an enormous new house that had just been built. They were here to finish the installation that they had started before the house went up. Toni liked new installation much better than fixing old broken pipes. She ran her hands along the counter in the bathroom.