. we're reduced to phone sex?" Pretty kinky, huh? I thought you'd like it. It is all right, isn't it, Billy?" Jean, if it were the only way I could ta...k with you, I'd get off on your smoke signals! Actually, it is kinky and you're right, it appeals to me. Safe, isn't it?" That's it! That's the point of it, brother mine. Because I've been afraid of you and more, afraid of myself, I've been inhibited, even withdrawn around you. I've been afraid to tell you what I'm feeling and particularly afraid. ?Jerry bent over her, reached out and tickled her ear.? The girl didn?t move.? Then he pinched her ear between thumb andforefinger, pulling and twisting.? Thegirl slept on. ?I reckon she?swell out, Phil.? Can I have a play??? He grinned. ?Be myguest.?? He laughed.? He sat back and watched as Jerry began todrag at the zip of her sleeping bag.? Asmore of the girl?s body was exposed he could see that she was wearing pinkpyjamas.? Jerry pulled the zip down untilthe bag was opened entirely, then. ”They nodded and I got hugs and apologies from them. “We’ll do better, we promise,” Liz told me.“You’re doing fine, Lilo,” I told her and she laughed a little. “Really. The thing with the jocks yesterday wasn’t your fault and I didn’t have a problem talking to her today. I think that’s resolved, for the most part. She might come to talk to me, but you don’t have to stay away if you see me with someone. I sit with the cheer team on early lunch. I’ll sit with the cheer team on late lunch. The population in Gaza is already nearly two million. Why not just draw a line from here to here and make it Jordanian territory?” He turned away from the map, glaring. “You’re not giving us anything other than mouths to feed.”“Three reasons,” I said patiently. “One, the entire history of colonialism will tell you that drawing arbitrary lines on maps does not end well. Two, Israel will not accept a reduction in its territory – even occupied territory. Three, we have infrastructure agreements in.