.."A tall very beautiful black woman in a surgical mask appeared at thefoot of his gurney; she stood imperiously, like a high-priestess,between his pa...nfully spread knees. She nodded to the tech holdingAndy's tied-off scrotum in the steel forceps. The color of hisswollen ball sack was already alarming. The baby-pink flesh hadturned an ominous shade of purple. It was all becoming clear what wasabout to happen, but Andy still didn't want to believe it, didn'twant to see the scalpel in the. Somebody kill me.The presents were all pretty damn boring, actually. Well I am sure thereal Emily would've liked them, but the dolls, doll's clothes, moreclothes for Emily and little girl's books were nothing that I could goape shit over. I smiled politely and thanked whoever had handed it tome. Even the biggest present of the day, a pink bicycle just the rightsize for Emily, complete with training wheels was shrug material to me,even though everyone else oohed and aahed over it.I had one thing. "Kidding," she said. "I'm game. It sounds like a hoot to me. I like everyone here so I'm cool with it." I probably don't want to put lotion on my brother," Erin said. "I'll be OK with anyone else." So, we have five newcomers," Sarah said. "Allie, I think you and I should start things off with Rachelle. That will leave Walt, Sean, Adam, Mary and Shelly for the new group. When we switch, maybe we can talk Mary and Shelly into splitting three into two. I guess we can just pick a name in the. Walking home did give me a good opportunity to think about what had happened, though I didn't get very far. Why was this happening now? I had never been bullied my entire life, and now, at age 20, this? I didn’t understand why it had happened, either – I was a strong guy, but even my best effort to pull myself loose had been completely futile. Maybe I had just been thrown off. But I didn’t look forward to tomorrow. The next day proved to be as strange as I had imagined. We didn’t have any work.