.SHIT! I'm not sure how 'Global Access Cable' popped into my mind, but it did. I quickly realized I had fucked up. I hadn't called in to work and quit...or at least said I was sick again like yesterday. Damn! That one tie to my old life as Mike Moore just wouldn't take care of itself. I quickly finished up and toweled off. I wrapped my hair tight in another towel and with one wrapped around my chest went to the kitchen to make the call I had been dreading.November 20th 1:58 PM"Global Access Cable. " She began to hum some tune I'd never heardbefore.And I began to hum it along with her.***"Mama," I screamed. I'd been sweeping in the kitchen, when I suddenlyfelt something odd between my legs. Nobody was around, so I justlifted my tunic and felt down there, inside my panties. When I lookedat my hand, there was something red and sticky on my fingers, blood."Mama!"Lira came running in from the yard. "That's the first time you..." Shestopped and saw the look on my face. Then she saw my hand. She shared the apartment with her friend who was sitting next to me, a similarly tall, statuesque black woman. As we got into the taxi all 3 of us sat in the back, with me in the middle and Demi her friend sitting on the right of me, I joked that we were like an Oreo with the way we were positioned, with both of the girls laughing loudly and Demi holding my hand on her lap with her hand, which totally engulfed mine. As we reached her house Demi paid the taxi fare and got out, she rang the door. This envelope contains a proposed settlement that you should present to your lawyer. If you choose to accept this settlement, then the grounds for the divorce will remain irreconcilable differences. If you chose to fight it, the grounds will be revised to adultery.’ ‘Why should I care? I’m still getting a divorce,’ she said with no apparent concern. ‘Well, I thought you might want to preserve your dignity and what’s left of your reputation. That might be a more important consideration when you.