”Both guys looked at each other then back to me and the first guy said,“I’m Chas; pleased to meet you Lolita. You never did tell me how old you ...re.”“I’m 18.”“You don’t look it Lolita.”“Well I am, and I can prove it.”I went into my bag, got my I.D. card out and passed it to Chas. After studying it for a few seconds he said,“This says that your name is Georgia.”“It is; Lolita is my stage name. My boss said that the punters would prefer me to be called Lolita.”“I can see why.” TC said; “hey mate,. Not my fiction collection, but my hard and soft sciences and language, theology books. I couldn’t even argue the point. I told her I was going to keep some for sentimental reasons. It made me cry. I had to get off the phones for a few minutes. I had built so much of my self image around my intelligence. My ability to remember and integrate facts across a wide range of subjects. Oh, I know I wasn’t the smartest. I studied under people who made scary smart people look stupid. I knew I was smart. I actually felt like I was sweating yesterday. I had my wife check and I was dry as a bone.My finger nub is finally about healed and my brain is figuring out the right signals to give me which is good. The nerves which are at my fingertip used to be on the circumference of my finger. When I would touch something with the tip of my finger I would get the feeling that my finger was inside the object. Which is cool and all but weird. My brain is also adjusting for the shorter distance involved.. T. With the heavy-heavy hanging over their heads—as they saw it, anyway—they couldn't afford to make anything public; no more media stories. I was pretty sure they wouldn't even risk circulating privately along police channels, they'd be too worried I'd learn of it and publish their dirty little secrets, or at least some of them, as I'd threatened.I'd isolated them the same way they'd initially isolated me. Which suited me fine, it was what I'd intended.What we had was an old-fashioned Mexican.