title: Minnie's Potatoes: When is brotherly love bad?  When a woman?s passions inflame  two brothers at the same time.
author: Laurice LaZebnik
description: Laurice LaZebnik has a BS in Education from Central Michigan University. LaZebnik taught secondary school Art and English, worked in international marketing and sales and in the local community as a volunteer. A licensed pilot and real estate salesperson, the author balances a social life with her husband with caring for elderly parents and her two dogs.
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  For my four little sisters and brother:  
  
  
  Jaci, Kati, Fiona, Sean, and Nicola
  
  
  ## [CHAPTER 1](threewishes_con01.html#ch_01)
  
  You could argue that it started thirty-four years ago when twenty-year-old
  Frank Kettle, a tall, fair, hyperactive ex–altar boy, fell madly in lust with
  Maxine Leonard, a long-legged languid redhead just a few days short of her
  nineteenth birthday.
  
  He was pumping with fresh testosterone. She knew better but did it anyway. In
  the backseat of Frank’s dad’s Holden. Twice. The first time involved a lot of
  head-bumping and grunting and breathless shifts of position, while Johnny
  O’Keefe bellowed at them from the car radio. The second time was slower and
  gentler and rather nice. Elvis soothingly suggested they love him tender. In
  each case, however, the terrible result was the same. One of Frank’s exuberant
  little sperm cells slammed head-on with one of Maxine’s rather less thrilled
  eggs, interrupting what should have been an uneventful journey