Thesurprised looks on everyone's faces - even Brett's - warned me Ishouldn't have butted in. Mama Juno, the infamous Voodoo priestess, hadbeen respons...ble for my transformation. And whether by magic or justsome well-placed bribes, she had managed to avoid prosecution for thatand a number of other crimes. That was all pretty powerful magic whenyou got right down to it. Of course they didn't know that, but theirlooks told me they suspected I just might believe in the mysterious oldfaith myself.. When we go to parties like this Lenora and I are not joined at the hip; we hang out all over the place. I was bouncing around drinking and talking with different groups. I would hang at the bar with Art’s friends for a bit or stop at my mother in laws’ table for a while. Lenora was doing the same. She was hanging with Sara and her family wanting to make Sara feel like part of the family.As the party progressed and everyone was feeling good, I was drinking with a lot of Sara’s cousins too and. I wonder what this will do to MY face."There, now let's just wait. " Toni actually set a timer as she gotherself ready. The timer went off and she came over, lifting on edge ofthe now hardened mask and it pealed right away. I was about to get upwhen she said, "That's only step one. We have two more to go." Oh boy,this is such a pain. I felt a warmer cream this time and it stung abit. Five more minutes and that peeled off. "OK Mandy, the last step."I just lay there as I feel a hot cream now. If the bozo had a bad heart, or some other medical issues, he might bite the big one, but I really didn’t care. I pointedly didn’t explain the danger to Lilly. I did not figure she needed to know. It might make her afraid to use it.Life continued as it always had in Siler City. Lillian had me remove the trailer from her folder bike, so that she could ride around town easier. The push trailer, I stored inside the horsey trailer. We barely had enough storage space, but I didn’t want another.