They giggle and push me under the water scrubbing me with scented soaps, washed head to toe. Then I dry myself and dress in my wedding attire, Isabel ...ust took slightly longer to get ready. Brought to the room off the main temple and I can hear a priestess giving a long speech to a screened doorway. She is talking about the sanctity of marriage, the blessings of love that lead to a longer happier life. The priestess continues with her sermon, when I hear a small bell ring, another priestess. We got up and all went upstairs to my room and went in. As soon as we were all inside, my mother turned the door lock as I asked him, "Do you like how I've decorated it now, all the little girl stuff is gone," and, indeed, the room was now the room of a young woman rather than a little girl."Well, it's no longer pink and frilly, I'll say that." Why don't you show him what else has changed, Carla, Go ahead, show him what's underneath that dress," my mother said."Here's what else looks. Clever. But still… I walked out of the elevator. Karen was working as the receptionist. She sat at the desk where the blonde girl had beenbefore, wearing the same skimpy, ultra-fashionableclothing the other girl had been waiting. “Can I help you?” Her voice was high pitched and girlish, just like theblonde woman’s, and she had that same half-dazedexpression I had seen on her face that night atTalia’s, a look full of confusion and… what else,lust? confusion? I. Grace for the recipe and for the teach-in.Afterward, we settled down to watch the latest episode of Big Bang Theory on TV. Grace had told us she loved the show back home. She was like a kid in a candy store at the thought she could actually watch the current series, rather than the five-year-old episodes that was best she could do back home. It was really sweet for Sue and me to see her unbridled pleasure at such a small thing. The sexual tigress from the night before replaced by a sweet young.