It took no time to find a pair of Nike sneakers in my size, a couple of pairs of slacks and some short sleeve shirts, along with the basic essentials ...f underwear, sleeping shorts and socks, toothbrush and other things for my overnight kit.Colleen seemed to enjoy spending the time doing something other than working as my attorney. We laughed joked and generally made light of my situation. As soon as things were paid for, I stepped into the men's room and changed clothes, tossed out the flip. I’m afraid, Paul. Are we going to be Ok?’ ‘I don’t know. It’s hard to trust you now. Even if I believe you never fucked him, what you did, out in the open, in front of everybody, would be considered cheating in almost anyone’s book. Am I not enough for you? Why were you so angry?’ ‘Shit, I don’t know. A lot of little things. Making us late for the party, for one. You knew how badly I wanted to go, and you had to be late again. Putting work before us. You didn’t even comment on my new outfit. We. ” This all seemed to be a bit of urban myth but they seemed to enjoy it.The conversation had taken an interesting turn and I wondered if it was true. Then the conversation turned even stranger. “You should have nothing to worry about then. We 3 should go for a run together sometime soon.” Glad the conversation had changed I agreed it would be a good idea.A couple of days later I needed the vacuum cleaner which you could borrow and you would put your room number on a chalkboard in the hall and. ’ ‘What do you mean, ‘a doom’? What kind of doom? And what do you mean by ‘its duration’? All I know is…’ ‘All you know,’ my seeress interrupted, ‘is that you have been visited with occult afflictions. I don’t know the precise nature or source of them, though I suspect that you do. I suspect that the visitation has occurred because of occult transgressions on your part. Power is a balance, and every act requires its offsetting. You may take some hope in the fact that your doom is not permanent,.