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"I hope you'll keep up with your dancing," Sanford said "You really were getting very good"

I didn't say anything I sat quietly and gazed out the side atching the scenery drift by It felt as if the world were on a ribbon that unraveled and floated behind us Every once in a while, Sanford would say so at uilt

"I hope Celine gets better," I told him

"Thank you" And again I saw tears in his eyes

We were going to the group foster home, a place called The Lakewood House Sanford explained that it was run by a couple, Gordon and Louise Tooey, who used to run it as a tourist roo house It was a little under a two-hour drive

"It will only be temporary for you, I'm sure," he said

On the way he wanted to stop to get ry The faster we got there and I started ht At the moment I truly felt in limbo

Sanford folloritten directions but he got lost once and had to pull into a garage for new directions Finally ere on the road that led to the group house

"There it is," Sanford declared

Ahead of us was a very large, gray two-story house It had as rounds than Sanford and Celine's hoether tohat looked like a ball field Two teenage boys were rass and a tall, muscular man with a shock of dark brown hair and

a chiseled face was shouting at sorass

"Looks nice," Sanford commented

After we parked he got out th hair pinned back burst out of the front entrance She looked about fifty and I thought her best feature was her startling blue eyes

"Thisyou all day, sweetheart," she declared, coirl you are"

"Yes, she is," Sanford said sadly