No, she's my Dad's "girlfriend", who he's now been with for longer than he was married to my mother. Once upon a time I disliked her, the way that most kids don't like their step-whtevers ("You're not my Mom!" "I wouldn't want to be!", etc.), but these days we're basically friends, not least because she loves the hell out of Cal. Yet, I've got to say...this could be a truly *good* story, in a nasty, nasty way. So I'm'a keep going, yo.