"Andie said I shouldn't takethem out till the holes had healed up. I doctored them a bit ago.Stings." Did you clean your face?" Uh huh," said Kelly. "...ook off all the makeup and then washed and usedsome of that cream." You don't need that stuff." It smelled nice." Your nails look pretty," said Barbie.Kelly blushed."Do you like having everyone think you're a girl?" I don't know?" What if you'd ended up on television? It could still happen, did youthink of that?" Barbie!" Kelly protested. "This. These days they are called online courses. Dottie was in college. One evening as I was starting my shift, I thought I would give Dottie a call at her dorm room. I had bought a Zircon Diamond ring from another employee at the bakery earlier the night before. He was an old Polish/Ukrainian man. This was long before Zircon’s were here in the USA. Because they were common in Russia. He purchased several to sell here in the USA. I was going to see how good of a fuck she could be. I was. Today is my last day as a regular homicide detective. Effective Monday morning, I’ll be promoted to Lieutenant and will take command of the Open-Unsolved unit in the detective division. My focus will be on those cases, some unsolved for years, that the department wants to aggressively pursue. Solving old cases gives a tremendous public relations boost to the police force. I am honored to have the promotion and the assignment. On this Friday night I pull into a parking garage about a block from. Let me talk a moment about Vanessa Henderson, a pastime that always pleases me. Not the historical part, though.Her great-grandmother, Veronica Andrushchenko had been raped and beaten in Kiev by a number of drunken Russian soldiers. Left to die in an alleyway.Veronika survived and Vanessa’s grandmother, Sasha was born of that rape in 1957.Life in what was then still Russia was pretty grim for a lot of people. Veronika turned to prostitution to put food on the table. They often slept in train.