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Show -22 didn't stay to see me?" Jacob said. "I really was going to. But your kids were playing all around me on the floor and all of a sudden all I could think of was that these little boys had a claim on my family feeling too. It panicked me. I'm sorry I didn't wait, Jacob. But I remember when I was fourteen, fifteen years old, this notion of family feeling used to come up in me so strong that I thought I would choke; I felt like I had to get away from all of you or die." "Kathleen was mad at you for a long time," Jacob said. "I don't blame her," I said. "She told the kids I had an important appointment in Los Angeles and that Uncle Buck couldn't wait for their daddy to come back from Boulder." "I was just there for the afternoon," Jacob said. "You didn't miss me by more than an hour." "Your kids were really disappointed I couldn't stay. You know something-that look on their faces still bothers me sometimes when I think of it. Doesn't that prove I'm still a kid myself?" "That's what I told Kathleen," Jacob said. "What could you expect c from somebody who's as old as Buck and hasn't ever settled down?" "I do lead a crazy life, don't I? When I think that you've stayed in the same town for eight years I'm amazet. I'm trying to apologize," I said. "But it's coming out |