However, the code in the lobby regarding celebrities was “look but don’t speak,” so we were not interrupted.I had arranged for the hotel desk to...have the designer’s name (Ji El), if anyone asked. Ji promised me that she would never make another copy of the dress in these colors. Red, orange, gold and purple were the colors she proposed to use for orders she got. She eventually added yellow, pink, black and a brown that matched the skin of some African-American clients; the patterns for that one. Norman tried, too, but still nothing happened. They tried collapsing the machine down to a little box and re-expanding it. The machine shrank and grew as well as ever, but the screen stayed blank.Edith sat down on the bed and began to cry. Norman sat down beside her and took her in his arms. It was weird; she was still male and taller and stronger than his female self. That didn't matter. Inside, she was Edith, and he'd been sharing life with her for too long to worry about anything. They didn’t celebrate anything…all they did was pray and preach and she was tired of it.Somehow in recent months she had learned about other girls that were not Jehovah’s Witnesses and that they were having fun and hanging around boys, and some were even having sex.I was aware of what she was saying but I was shocked that she knew it.Mary was still in my arms when she kissed me and then asked me if she could go up into my tree house. She had run away from home and she needed a place to stay. I. "Quite an adventure you have planned. Wish I could do something like that." "Well, someday, pack up your wife and head out on the water, you will love it." I said. "Yeah, someday" he answered. We both knew he would never do it. He was tied into the family life and was loving it too much to drop everything for an adventure like that. His wife, her name was Becky, had finished cooking the catfish and we all retired to the cabin to eat. It was only a short walk and it was a very nice three room.