An energy-independent America was on the verge of overtaking Saudi Arabia as the world's leading producer of oil. With the country concentrating more ...n dealing with the Pacific, rather than either Europe or the Middle East, it finally withdrew from those parts of the world.The consequences of an American withdrawal resulted in an Israeli-Sunni-Shiite conflict, which started first in the Middle East, then eventually spearing towards Central and South Asia. A nuclear armed Israel and nuclear. She was of average height, at five and a half feet. Though, I guessed that she got a breast enhancement (34C cups) when she was outside the country. But the oval face was natural because I’d seen her since she was a teenager.That evening, she was a bit high and confided in me that she’d broken up recently. I imagined that if this were an arranged marriage, Ramola would be divorced already. This was the second time in 3 years that this had happened.No boy was good enough for her. She wanted a. “Mother!” a low, growling voice hissed.The ground shook.I opened my eyes to see Cora. My daughter stood above me, her tawny hair bristling with her anger. Her clawed hand swiped and ripped the Black man's head off. She kicked his body into the charging spearmen.“Cora!” I shouted in joy.She seized me, threw me over her shoulder, and leaped away.“No!” I screamed as we almost flew over the tops of the soldiers, their spears flying up to stab us. “We have to go back! They have Chantelle!”“Sorry,. "Now let me get to work on your hair and then I'll do your makeup. Youmight be going to the Prom but I have a date tonight too," she smiledthrough her tear-wetted eyes.Sloane worked on me for about three hours getting my hair and makeupperfect. She wouldn't let me see the results until she was finished thenshe led me over the full-length mirror in our bedroom.I gasped when I saw myself; Sloane had had given me the utmost eightieskitsch hairstyle. She had piled half of my long blonde hair.