His views and practices were abruptly modified and Sarge considered Susan not only a ravishing woman, but also his equal. He rolled his head to the si...e and glanced at his sleeping beauty.Her face was etched with a continuous smile, which radiated to everyone around her. Sarge's family readily accepted Susan even though she was his mistress and his wife didn't mind. It meant Zelda received all the luxuries of living with a politically, powerful man and she didn't have to satisfy any of his. We had only planned on an evening with about six or eight of us switching off with each other for multiple opportunities to taste something a little different for a change. My husband got a little ahead of himself and we looked at a list of invited guests that numbered twenty altogether not including the two of us.We discovered that most of the invited guests were bring their wives or their live-in girlfriends with the understanding that each individual had the option to match up with whomever. ‘..I swear to God, she is so…’ a voice drawled into her mind, slowly unraveling, the words being followed far too slowly by comprehension. ‘Jane!’ the words should have sounded more like panic, not… amusement. Everything was blurry, and slow, and there was something dark and heavy on her forehead. This wasn’t funny. This was… ‘Oh em gee…’ a third voice intoned, and a wild thought crept in to Jane’s mind. Aliens. Had to be. Suddenly, the slow motion sped up as she tried again to lift her head. . I could plead my innocence and the facts to the four winds, but no one was now listening. I learned real quick who my real friends were ... and it was sadly a very short list. Anyone who even remotely considered my signed statement as 'fact' was politely encouraged to find something else better to occupy their time with.It was just mere coincidence then that the restoration work on all of the other vintage Arc Deco theaters immediately and completely stopped for good and all of their original.