I won’t be calling or seeing you anymore.’ Then I just turned and walked away. No point in getting into something with him. He just wasn’t wort... my career and it appeared neither was she. I heard a couple of months later from Dave that his girl friend had told him that Kerr knocked Deloris up and then dumped her. Kerr’s parents stepped in and had bought her off to the tune of twenty grand to keep her mouth shut and move on with her life without him. One night, Deloris’s brother, George. Helen finished pulling my hair through the little holes. It was a littlepainful with the constant tugs, but Helen was careful and soon she waspainting a mixture on the hair on my head with a small paintbrush. Withmy hair painted on top of the cap, Helen took me over to where Anna wassitting in a reclining chair."Now is the best part Dani" Anna said excitedly. While your hair is beingconditioned, we are getting our mani-pedi's!" Anna was right as we satback in the chair and the roller massage. And when I had a chance to change my lifestyle to one similar to what I was doing now, she let me turn it down. Why? Because she believed I wanted to!Of course, she shouldn't have done it at all but I had given her reason. I wasn't the type to say, "Divorce the slut! Kick her cheating ass out! Look at me: I'm so perfect! I could never do what she did." Sure, I could have done that: I could have been a hypocrite and done the high and mighty thing. She had cheated, yes, but so what? We could deal. He always lured her here, didn’t he, and now she was at the mercy of his will. Why do you think of defying me? Who do you think you are? Elphaba? You ain’t defying any gravity here, my love. No. I like you like that. You’re fucking depressing. What do they call it these days? Emo? he continued. She’d been like this for about two weeks. No one could locate her. She was in a sad, dark place. The walls here were mildewed and stained opaque with dingy hues. Her wrists and ankles were bound, and her.