Searching in all the wrong places. When in the end it was all so simple. The solution was always right in front of him. In retrospect you always wonde... why you didn't come up with that brilliant idea sooner. On the other hand, maybe he had needed all that time to develop his ideas. Mature his thoughts. Had it materialised too soon, perhaps it would have all have gone wrong. Who knows. He used that thought to comfort himself. To rationalize his time in the doldrums. But more than a decade?. I did not want to have to answer questions as to what I was doing and/or why. The ironic thing is, I actually thought through the years, my wife would manage to walk downstairs and catch me. Being the prude that she is, I'm certain it would lead to some pretty ugly discussions.I was more wrong than I could ever realize.One night, not quite having reached the finishing point, my 16-year-old teenage step-daughter Karly interrupted me in mid-stroke. I was shocked and embarrassed, and, stuttering,. That is...”“How about you sit down and tell me why you’re upset?”“I went to the Next Step center today,” I said, sitting down, “and I found out you gave the ok on telling their ‘mental health’ professional everything and gave the ok to change people without telling them what was happening.”“Partially. I told Janet, that’s the ‘mental health professional’ you mentioned, the whole truth before we decided to let her work at the center. She was doing research on your blood with us, and we found. Listen closely to me. Listen closely to my words. You will sink deeper and deeper into this hypnotic trance, it will completely overtake you, my voice will overtake you, my words will completely overtake your mind and body. You just want to surrender to my words, surrender to my will. Surrender and obey. The more you obey the deeper you fall and the deeper you fall the more you want to obey. From now on you’re my little girl, you’re my precious little baby, a completely helpless baby that.