The other hand starts the engine and pushes the door wide, letting in the cool night air.For reasons best known to yourself you keep your eyes closed ...nd turn to face the camera slightly raising a leg to slide one foot onto the dashboard. You reach across to lower the seat back on the passenger side as an idea grows. Eyes still shut the sense of daring heightened, your ears alert to every sound particularly your own loud breath. It’s coming in shorter and shorter and shorter bursts, closer and. I was the only non-white person there. The party got busted and but Ididn’t worry about it. I had been arrested for weedthree times before, all in Louisville, and each timegot just a fine and probation. And since hubby is richand I’ll never have to work again, that’s no big deal. But the judge who sentenced me, an old white guy whoprobably doesn’t care much for black people, told methat it was obvious I hadn’t learned my lesson so Ineeded to do time. He gave me 90. He began running, calling, ‘Wait for me Paula!’ She turned, saw him charging, squealed and hot-footed it to the stables. She turned the corner with a long lead and he reached the corner of that building but couldn’t see her. ‘In here,’ she called. He found her on a horse blanket on loose straw in the feed store at the front of the stacked bales of straw and bagged oats. ‘Hi,’ he said. She stared at him, her chest rising and falling rapidly from her brief spurt of running. Paula hadn’t. He was very clever and she would have admired his intelligence if itwasn’t always used against her. She felt they would be a powerful couple if she could just gethim to take an interest in her. He never seemed to even notice her and let the other girls takecontrol with certain guidelines he laid down for them.This new job was an all-time low for her and she had begged him to let her work at the strip clubinstead. Wendy had started taking her there each Tuesday back in July and, because it.