." You're kind of a bitch sometimes," Jen said and that made me blink. We'd never said anything like that to one another, not once, and I'd known Jenn...fer Hawkins a long time!"Jen..." I gotta go!" she said a microsecond before she hung up."Great!" I rolled my eyes. My best friend hated me now. "Shut-up!" I frowned at Licorice. "I know I'm a bitch."ring- ring- ring"Telepho ... oh!" It was on the floor next to the tub. "Grand Central Station." When's the next train to Clarkesville?" Huh? Amber?". The government reacted harshly, malefirearm laws were enacted, and membership of any paramilitary groupbecame outlawed.When in 2087, the male police minister was found to be funnelling armsto some of the more violent extremest groups, the effects were farreaching. Men were shunned from high positions in public service,slowly weeded out of the police forces, and the castration laws wereexpanded to include armed violence against women. The police ministerbecame the first male to be publicly. By the time she was in junior high, I had graduated.Dad mentioned that she received a degree in child development and was looking for work in that field. Right now she was working at the local department store. I remember dad saying that Kim remembered me but he wouldn't say much about it.Later that day I went down to see my buddy Clay. He seemed awfully happy for a guy that was recently divorced. He took a break and we went to the restaurant and had lunch and brought each other up to snuff on. I leaned towards him, our heads touched then nuzzled together.“At least I finally understand what it really means for you,” he said after a minute or two. “I’ve never seen you lose it like that in all the time I’ve known you.”“Does it hurt to see me doing it?”“Of course it does! But in a perverse way it helps too.”I raised an eyebrow.“Well I can see for myself that it’s just sex. It’s just physical. There was no love there, just raw, animal fucking.”“That’s all it was ever supposed to be,” I.