Miss Dawkins decided to end the caning with a flourish. She pulled the cane back again and focussing on where she wanted it to land, whipped it down a...d watched Mrs Stone’s bottom cascade as the cane buried itself in her cheeks. Then without waiting, she pulled the cane back and whipped it down again the very next split second for a double stroke. She rarely did that with the schoolgirls but knew it significantly intensified the pain.Mrs Stone cried out when the double stroke landed and gripped. " Sarah put my uniform down on the bed andtore herself away.Mom got the pink dress off its hanger. "This will be more appropriatefor church," she said as she unbuttoned a few of the top buttons. Sheshowed me how to step into it, and then she pulled it up over myshoulders and buttoned it up to my neck. I started to cry again whenshe lifted up my dress and fussed with the lacy hem of my slip. Shegave me a hug and said, "I know this must be so hard for you." Oh Mom, I can't go out dressed like. "You like it hard, don't you?" he would say as my husband rammed me from behind. And I did but I didn't know any better. He was in my home. We were alone. He had stayed over before but he had always respected my marriage and it never went any further even though we both wanted to. We had had some wine. We had talked quite innocently about how unhappy I was with my husband. I was never hearing the words. I was looking at his lips, lost in a daydream, wishing we were in a passionate kiss. I gazed. Partners were different every day and you had no idea who you had been scheduled with until she walked into the room (boys left class about ten minutes before the girls). Women of lesser attractiveness (obesity had become almost unheard of, but there were still people born with certain defects of the face and whatnot) were barred from the education program and found work in unskilled tasks and sometimes were tasked with the raising of children born from women who wished to reenter the program.