‘Goodbye, love.’ I get in my car and drive to the hotel. The DVD weighs heavily in my mind, sitting next to me on the passenger seat. Nothing Liam...ever gave me was with good intentions. When I get inside my suite, I sit down on the couch and put the DVD into my laptop. It takes a moment to read but when it plays the sound is way too loud. I adjust the volume and look up to see Evelyn and Liam making love on the screen. At first I want to yell with rage, but all I can do is feel icy coldness. She was deeply engrossed in the pictures that she did not notice my presence. I just touched her and asked her whether she liked the collection. She just closed her eyes with the hands and asked for apology. I told her that its ok and there is nothing to ashamed of or feel bad since this is a period where in everyone would like to explore the unknown. She was a little comfortable and as I was moving on the towel and watched her through the mirror I found her staring at me. I combed my hair and. One of the other activists on my committee was Barb who during a brief personal introduction go around to others in the group stated that she was sixteen years old and a student at the most progressive public high school in the city.Over the next few months, we planned a dramatic nonviolent protest in downtown Chicago to kick-off our campaign. When the day of the protest arrived, we had almost one thousand people present to participate along with legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild. It kept the dinner from being the awkward, stilted affair it otherwise likely would have become, and to my surprise, I actually enjoyed myself.If I’d thought the hall had been full the night before, I was mistaken; there must have been twice as many people stuffed in there for the official banquet, including, I was pleased to see, a small table with a number of elves – the Hahren of the Alienage and a number of other, well-dressed, unruffled looking elves. By the way those at the nearest table.