. but at the same time I was having all these fantasies about her punishing me ... you know ... hitting my butt with her big yardstick ... She'd lay o...t my assignments on her desk and show me what I was doing wrong and was telling me that she expected me to do better. She'd say 'Ruthie, I know you can do better and it's what I expect from you. Please don't disappoint me with your next paper.' And I now know that she was just trying to get me to write well so I could do better in my other. Mister Huang said that he had already sent for another girl to replace Ling’s sister, Li Chen. Seems old Clem didn’t want his prospective bride to be kneading on other men, even if the massages were only therapeutic. I was highly disappointed by that, once I caught a gander of Li, because she was a little doll.All relaxed and spiffed up, I walked over to Rosa’s to check on Feleena. This time Rosa immediately opened the front door of the cantina when I knocked. I stayed downstairs and visited. He lay on his tummy, his head on the pillow, his mouth open a quarter inch as he breathed. It reminded me of when I was his age, asleep in my room, dreaming sixteen-year-old girl dreams.That’s now twenty-one years ago. I remembered it like this:“Daddy?” I mumbled. My head was foggy with sleep. He had just, barely, woken me up.“Hey, baby girl,” he said quietly. “Just thought I’d stop by.”I had been sleeping in bed. It was ten am, but it was a weekend and I didn’t need to be up at all. I was a. Franklin was gay and had been manipulating us to turn us into girls. Now Dr. Franklin was acting as if he were sexually attracted to me!I couldn't help myself. I turned to face him. "Sir, please tell me what's going on? Why are you doing this?"`The smile left his face immediately, and he averted his gaze as he stepped back. "It's a little too soon, I guess" he said, as if to himself. Looking back at me he said "You've been taking such good care of yourself that I just wanted you to know.