"Good morning Lisa. My, but you look lovely this morning." Grandma wassmiling when she talked to me. She bent over and kissed me on the cheek."Place t...ese packages under the tree for later Janet." My sister took thepresents into the front room."What. No kiss for Grandpa?" Sure grandpa, I love you very much too." I hugged him and gave him a kiss onthe cheek too.Mom and Dad came down the stairs about this time. Mom was in her matchinggreen dress from yesterday and dad was rearing a similar outfit. "From what I've been able to find out she's a sophomore transfer student by the name of Melissa Smith and despite being on campus for only a week has become head of the local born-again Christian organization."Jim worked part-time in the admissions office as a clerk as part of his scholarship package, and was very well connected, curious, and clever. I envisioned him becoming the head of corporate security at a large corporation within just a few years after graduation."She looks like a. In fact, some men hunger after very young girls, not much more than children. I do not know why this is. Perhaps they relish the innocence and fragility of the young and wish to regress to their own childhood, or maybe they have been humiliated by mature women in the past, and do not wish to face further rejection or ridicule.”She frowned, and continued. “However, there are also men who revel in abusing immature girls, using depravity to degrade and abase them, brutally imposing their will and. And probably worse. This wasan innocent woman, a kidnapping victim herself. And she was the motherof someone Rose sort-of knew.The man didn't know how the word started going around that she had beenbetrayed, and by whom. He just knew that he had heard it from a numberof other prisoners. He also had the impression that the word had spreadmost quickly among the locals, and more slowly among the others. Hedidn't know how many people had heard it outside of those he consideredlocals.He was telling.