The room is all set up, as soon as you pay Daddy."Grabbing Molly's arm, she drags her over to the cash register. Spotting her father in the dinning ar...a, she shouts across the restaurant."Hey, Daddy! I said she would be here."Alberto Salaneo looked up at his daughter yelling across the restaurant and apologizes to the customers. Walking over to them, he looked sternly at Stella and then smiled warmly at Molly."Where have'a yu been little one? You have'a scare your poor'a mama by disappearin'. I had to erase and re-work problems all over the place. My paper was a mess. I imagined Daddy somewhere in the house, talking with Mom and reaching into his pocket to press buttons and torture me even when I was alone.When dinner was ready, we sat at the table and Mom filled us in on her trip. I didn’t know anyone who worked as hard and as much as she did. I always liked hearing about her trips and seeing the pictures she emailed me while she was away.“So Charlie…how is school going?”I felt. As he neared the corner of Diamond and 6th, he paused for a momentin the shadows to let a police car pass by. As he recognized OfficerJacqueline Bergstrom sitting behind the wheel, he realized it wasobviously heading for his house. Jackie was a good cop. Once shefound out he'd fled on foot, she'd be hot on his trail."That's strange," he mumbled as he saw the large green circus tentin what he'd expected to be a vacant lot. He quickly scanned thesigns proclaiming this to be the "Hall of Mystic. I double pressed the rewind button and took the opportunity to make my tea. While I was adding milk the tape's whirl clunked to a stop and then I heard the machine begin playing. There was some cheesy music, not his style at all, and some muffled dialogue. I couldn't make it out.I walked back from the kitchen to a scene, seemingly across half the wall, of a crowd of naked men around a single woman on her back. I didn't initially recognize what I was looking at. The symmetry made me think I was.