Reindeer, polar bears, horses, camels, donkeys, penguins, sheep and birds stood stiffly on her kitchen table; their eyes bright and looking for all th... world as if they would move at any second. Leslie poked a tentative finger at a polar bear figurine and laughed with surprise as she felt warm fur. All the figurines had the same strange warmth as she examined them in turn, marveling at their almost sentient quality.The woman then set out equally intricate wooden soldiers, nutcrackers and snow. Phyliss had me lay backon the table, and began removing my makeup she then put a pack on my faceand placed some pads over my eyes and told me to relax for ten minuteswhile the pack worked. Next she removed the pack and placed some more padsover my eyes and said she was going to turn the lights up brighter so shecould see better to work on my eyebrows. I had mentioned to Pam severaldays ago that the hair they plucked was growing back and she told me shehad known that but she was going to let. Think. So," she said with exaggerated deliberateness. "But I think we canmake this trip happen. The wagon will be perfect for it."That fall, the women had treated themselves to their first-ever new car, a1964 Ford Country Squire Station Wagon. It had cost more than threethousand dollars?almost half of Melissa's annual salary. Claire had wantedto spend a few hundred more for a Mercury Colony Park wagon, but Melissahad said buying a Ford was a move less likely to draw attention.The months seemed. “And I’m your travel guide, honey”. The black suited man who picked little Liz from school said in somewhat joking, somewhat cynical tone. “So hurry to get everything you would like to take with you”.Hearing his tone, although Marco and Laylen did not like it, from what little they grasped, to their understanding even if that person was not genuinely amiable, he was still there to safeguard them, well ... if they were not being lied to.“Go help her, Laylen”. Marco sent his wife and daughter.