'i assume you see the logic of putting your gun on the floor and pushing it away from you . i lean close , i take his face in my hands , and this time i really kiss him . he stepped off of the sidewalk and into the lot . instead , i had landed neck-deep in more responsibility than id had before i left , with an eighty-two-year-old woman and a six-year-old-boy depending on me . it 's like last fall all over again except much , much worse . three statues from somewhere before , very recently , in fact . 