He smiledas he turned and patted the curls with his free hand. Loose, his hair fellto his hips; it gave Miss Jennie plenty to work with when she turne... hishair into the thick banana curls he so loved to wear.His first salon set was for his third birthday party, his formalintroduction as Alexandra Michelle Brown, his new name part of the packageof shedding Shipwright from my identity. Wearing pretty dresses hadtempered the tantrums of the Terrible Twos, so when Vicky suggested thatSandy join her. It was making me so hot thinking someone was interested in someone like me. That is when I heard a ding ding noise. I was almost out of gas. Leave it to me to forget I was below a quarter of a tank. There was a gas station that you can pay at the pump, thank goodness I thought about bringing the coat. Putting on my coat, I got out and started filling the tank. I looked up and he was driving by very slowly, the windows were very darkly tinted, so I could not see in. It was starting to get dark. We had tripped together so many times. It's like living 20 years in one night when you are coming down. If there is someone to talk to, you talk a lot. And we talked a hell of a lot. About philosophy, about history, about how the paint in the kitchen was peeling something awful. One night she had said "You know, I wish I could be you, or you could be me for a little while, just to see how it would be." "Like, we are so close, you and I experience everything together. But is it the same. Get completely naked.'I slowly began to undress as I tried to get my sobbing under control. I could hear the zooming of the cameras and knew that Michael was in control of them, trying to get the best view. 'Good. Now I want you to get on the bed and grab your pillow and hump it like the bitch you are. Don't stop until I tell you to. And get the paper on the dressing table. I want you to read the story on it while you are dry humping.'It took me a few seconds to register what the story was.