The rope was slippery yellow nylon, perfect for the task. Putting as much menace into my voice as I could to better control her, I whispered in her ea..., "If you resist or move, I'm going to cut parts off your body." She shivered in fear. "Think about which parts you can do without before you try anything." That would freeze her.Again with menace, "Lift your arms." She complied, though she nearly fainted.I quickly tucked the knife in my belt and grabbed the rope, twirling it around one wrist. She hoped they’d lend her a phone as she left hers at her s****r’s house. She gingerly walked up to the big wooden door and rapped on it with the huge door knocker. A moment later someone in a masquerade mask opened the door which startled Carry a fair deal at first. “It’s a party” the person said laughing at her expression. “oooh, well, my car broke down and I left my phone at my s****r’s please may I borrow yours to call for someone to come and collect me?” “Of course, follow me” They. It imparts some of the life-experience to the daughter, and helps form a bond that will last a lifetime. Our parents were very diligent in doing that. This afternoon Dad and Liz went off to do something, leaving me at loose ends. I was riding my bike down Main Street when Mom and I got to have one of those Mother-Daughter experiences, just not the one those magazine articles imagined.I'd mentioned that the parks in town had a lot of bushes. There was one that didn't, the park right in the. , wondered if it would change me. It did a little. I became wary of meeting people, of having them get close enough to use me for something." The real kicker was the time I spent out there with you guys. It made me realize that money was nice but it was better to build something with a legacy. That's what you've done. As the people around you meet more people, they come to understand that how you treat people is important. I saw it with Tia. She was scared to death out there when she first.