It all ended abruptly and the park was overrun by a team of goons in black jumpers which sported the symbol of The Party. There was yelling and scramb...ing to flee but we were surrounded. We were all arrested and dragged to waiting vans. This seemed like a lifetime ago but it's only been six months. I think of the Indian and how he was not even given the opportunity to have one final orgasm. I lost sight of him in the confusion as it became every man for themselves. We were flogged and called. Brandon, you can go to football camp the first two weeks of August. Candy, you can go with Deb and her parents to Quebec assuming they still intend to invite you and I approve. It won't hurt you to learn a different language, even if it is only for two weeks."One millisecond later they were high-fiving each other. I apparently had been set up. I should have known better, looking at the grin on Mrs. Ormstead's face."I suppose you two think you're clever. Well, in early July we are going to spend. . examined, more like ... by the time we met him I had the feeling he knew more about us than we did.“Your mother did the world a favor,” he said.“What?” We are triplets ... this time we sounded like soloists in a choir.“It took long enough for your government to get their lies together for the rest of the world to solve their own problems. That hadn’t happened since December 2, 1823. He was a terrible president,” Consul General Kucherenko said. And as a swift change of subject, “Khrystyna.. " He turned away from me and spoke a few quiet words into the telephone, then glanced back at me. "Yes. Very good, Ma'am," he said, and hung up. He brushed down his overcoat and emerged from the booth, then flashed me a grin and opened the door. "Eighth floor, sir. Your lady friend is waiting for you."It took every scrap of self-control I possessed not to run across the lobby. The lift opened as I approached, and I waited patiently for a pair of middle-aged women to maneuver themselves out of.