Yes, you guessed it…. Liz. “Huh, excuse me?” I reply. “I see you over there with a coy little smile. So, what are you thinking about?” I ...ontinue looking at her. I’m trying to come up with a smart- ass remark but for the life of me I’m having a brain fart so I just said, “Nothing much. Just… thinking about something earlier.”“And… what is that?” she says with a bit of flirtation with her eyebrows raised. Damn, she is persistent. Now, generally when someone keeps asking you questions like. ? he said.?Then don?t say it. Life is too hard. If you don?t want to be with me,then don?t go.??JoJo, you know I want to be with you.??Then shut up and dry-clean your suit. We?re going to a wedding.?And, yes, it was a nice time. JoJo wore a yellow dress with black trim,and outlined against her dark skin it was lovely. Her shoulders werebare, and when they entered the church, she held onto his arm as if toclaim him.They danced, and he danced with Helen, too, and the music was loud andthe punch. One day when she was f**rt**n He caught her masterbating and flew into a drunken rage' taking off His belt He pulled her over his lap. He yelled at her that only bad little g*rls play with their private parts as He brought the belt down on her backside for the first of what was more than 40 lashes of the belt. because her D*d was as drunk as He was most of the blows did not land on her ass like she expected but struck her between the legs on her private parts. by the time he was through. That's what's made me so bitter: that she'd have left me to all those bloody do-gooders who just wanted to get into my knickers."She was silent and Steven respected it. Suddenly her attitude changed. She bent forward put her face in her hands and was wracked with sobs. Steven moved from his chair and knelt in front of her taking her hands in his. He did nothing more, waiting for her to react."Uncle Steven, hug me, ple-ease."He did so. Only their faces and shoulders could be in contact.There.