If anyone had kept up on Mariah, she would have. ‘Well, I did hear about her and her loose morals a fair bit, up until about 6 months ago. After tha... it was like she’d dropped off the face of the earth.’ 6 months? That was quite a gap. We chatted for a while and she warned me not to trust Mariah any farther than I could throw her with one arm tied behind my back. I decided to make a phone call to Jane. She had been both Mariah’s and my friend before I moved away. She knew the reason I left and. ..and I think I whimpered a bit...nor detectable to anyone, I think, but patently detectable to me.The new Madam would live up to the image I'd surmised of her...that she was deeply cruel, and ingenious in her treatment of all the prisoners. How I craved the depraved manner of the old Madam...I actually would have traded one for the other if that were a possibility in the real world.I saw now that she was infinitely preferable to the breathtakingly beautful witch who now controlled our very. At aJones Store in Missouri, the clerk wouldn't sell me a pair of plainnylon panties. She made me beg her to sell them with a dozen womenaround waiting to be helped.I used to dress in a long leg panty girdle and underwire bra when I wastraveling by plane on business. Of course, one must walk through ametal detector. The garter tabs on the girdle and the underwire metalon the bra sets off the metal detector, and you get "wanded" then haveto explain (hopefully to a woman) that you are a cross. "You know how to operate a femborg?" asked Joe.Nathan studied his purchase for a moment. She stood there perfectly still, eyes darting this way and that. "Nope," said Nathan.Joe handed him the controller and asked, "Ever play a First Person Shooter video game?" Nope. Never was into video games." Well then," said Joe. "See these two big knobs?" Yeah." They're called thumbsticks."Nathan pressed one of the thumbsticks and the girl stepped oddly sideways and fell down, banging her head, yet didn't.