***She grew up in the rough and tumble south side of the decaying urbanlandscape, running with street gangs and associating with the punksclinging to ...he underbelly of society. Maybe under a normal upbringingshe might have faired better, got an education, married and raised a quietfamily. But Marlene hated anything that seemed normal, or feminine.She was no better than the thugs she ran with, at twelve, had killed herfirst person in a random incident of pure hatred. A young girl just. " The phrase sat in the back of my mind all the next day. What did mom mean by that? Was there to be a next time? And if there were would I fuck Monica if I had the chance? Silly question -of course I would - in a heartbeat! I had fantasies of mom, Monica and me on the same bed. Mom blond and tanned; Monica light skinned, freckled and with her long red hair - it would be a great contrast. But it was only fantasy and I knew it.My affair with my mother was not without an element of danger. We. It was if it - I - had never existed.I was left standing alone in the alleyway, staring at the spot where mywhole life had just simply vanished. Whether I was in a parallel universe,an altered reality, or whether some unspoken magic had facilitated thischange upon me, did not matter. I just knew as a fact that however it hadhappened, what was done was done and that this is how things would remainfor me, unless another twist of fate decreed otherwise. Patrick was gone andI was now .... “So you outfitted Laura to the nines for a date with her boss Greg. It sounds like you paid for everything she is wearing but don’t get the benefit of anything.” “Not exactly everything. I don’t know who bought the underwear she has on, what little she is wearing. She is wearing a couple of jewelry things Greg bought for her.” Dan talked about Greg wanting Laura to have something that represented the two of them. He described the ankle bracelet including the two diamonds adorning the bracelet..