I have six people from that other company starting today. I'll get them through the home office as fast as possible and out getting listings."I told T...d, "You know that MLS and Zillow has properties and we get the seller's commission if we sell it. Have your new people work on selling new properties, but they should not forget something that's available on the market. Let's be a 'real' real estate company, in other words."Sheila had shadowed me and met each of the entities. They all said that. Millie turned to Bob with the first show of anger. It madeher very pretty. "Bob, as long as you still get a hard-on looking atAnnie, you need to be shamed. Do you understand that?"Bob hadn't accepted that when it came from me, but coming from his wifeit was a different matter."You're to carry your lipstick at all times, do you understand? You'reto carry your mascara and everything else you need to make up your eyes.You're to carry a proper mirror. Whenever anyone gives you the order,you're to. Dad once said, "The most important thing is keeping our family together and happy. Next to that is getting you kids ready to live in the world as it is, not the way we wish it were. The most useful way of doing that is to make sure you think and talk and act like grown up, intelligent human beings, not like animals or Bozo dolls."Keeping us together meant not saying anything about how we went around naked and all. We had long talks about what could happen if we said the wrong things. Staying. She is crying. Her chin trembles pitifully. But I'm not impressed at all. Without much haste I sit behind the desk and write the document with which she should go to the X-ray department.The orderly rolls her out without bothering to be as careful as not to crash the stretcher in the doorframe. I sit and wait. There are no other patients. Dead time. I go outside to smoke a cigarette. I can't stop thinking about the most hateful human being in the world. The pain from the long-lasting separation.