title: Door Within a Door: A Bedtime Adventure
author: Angie J Halama
description: Angie Joyce Halama and Matthew Paul Halama met while both were studying teaching at the University of WisconsinEau Claire. Angie went on to earn a masters degree in education from Grand Canyon University, and she has taught middle school for ten years at various schools in Wisconsin, Arizona, and Minnesota. Matthew taught elementary school for several years in Arizona before switching to a career in the global trade/logistics industry.
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  Chapter 1: S tep One, 1974
  IN THE SUMMER after my sophomore year of high school, my
  mother returned unexpectedly from one of her angry abandonments
  of the family. My boyfriend and I were sliding our nakedness together
  in the finished basement of my parents’ oceanfront home when I
  heard the kitchen door slam shut and her high heels tick-tick-ticking
  against the flagstone floor. By the time she started down the
  stairway, Jimmy and I’d grabbed our clothes and slipped behind the
  door to the unfinished part of the basement. Without time to dress, I
  held the doorknob in both hands, wedged one foot against the jamb,
  and pulled back. My mother, screaming “I know you’re in there,”
  grabbed the doorknob on the other side. For a few minutes, our
  strength balanced out, and the door was a fulcrum between our
  weights.
  What is the p oint? I thought. S he knows what I’m doing. I let go,
  and the door snapped open, revealing 