” I was a little nervous from what just transpired and my mouth was dry so I said I had to get something to drink. As I went over to the sink to get...a glass of water, my niece followed and reached from behind me and started to massage my chest. “Do you want to know what the whole dream was about?” After I took a drink of water I turned around and said, “You bet your sweetness.” She asked how I knew her sweetness and I told her in my dreams it always was. She smiled and said, “I guess I’m not. In fact, we'replannin' on goin' on 'oliday to New York next summer. If no one'sguessed by then that we're two lipstick lezzas, there's no 'elp for'em!Anyhoo, today's a big day. It's Tina's wedding day. Yes, she sorted'erself out. Graduated this year, although I dunno what she's gonna dowith 'er degree - neither does she! Her fiancee's a bit of a tit - alocal ex of hers from a few years back - but she's 'appy. I asked 'errecently if she'd ever 'eard from Peter - I certainly never 'ave. Tinasaid. Although the leather wassoft, and I doubted that it was doing any real damage, it still hurtlike hell against my sensitive skin.I glared at the bitch who did it and that gave me the anger necessaryto carry on. "You bitch!" I screamed at Hera. "Get back on the street!Wiggle that ass and make me some money!" That was better. Hera moanedat the insults in a joyous melding of faith and degradation."Slut! Whore, ho, pussy, slit, cunt, puta, hole, er, trollop..." Istarted to sweat. I was rapidly. “If you’re both sure,” hesaid � and we assured him we were. By the light of the hurricane lamp we lit the stove andI whipped up a meal of beans and coffee from the hut’sscant supplies. Then we hung our drenched clothes nearthe stove to dry and crawled into the huge bed � firstTom, in his T-shirt and jocks, then Arnold in his baggyunderwear, and, last of all, me, wearing only my slip.The drumming of the rain soon lulled me to sleep untilI woke in the middle of the night.