President Hammer ascended to the presidency because of an appointment and a death and she delivered the goods immediately. She never made any promises... but she’s already done more for this country than all of the Washington politicians put together. I think America lucked out when she agreed to accept the vice presidency!”Several Congressmen and a Senator eventually made appearances in the studios, mostly to explain how President Hammer had misinterpreted their reasonable concern as fear. There. Her health was starting to go and for the past twelve years, I had been living on the other side of the country. But as it always was with Mom her warm spirit and kind demeanor was all it took to transport me back to my childhood, if only for a brief moment. It was so lovely, so life-affirming and I reveled in it. Mom was the best... my sister Janie though, ugh. There she was. I would not look directly at her, and she stood there, arms crossed, fuming in my peripheryShe strode over and stood. I had looped the heavy nylon rope over and through the upper rails, leaving an open noose dangling near the forward edge of the lower bunk. After I was in the noose, Tonya would be able to take up the slack and tie off the opposing end to one of the rear uprights.Because Mike was staying with us off and on, Tonya decided to shut the bedroom door, in the event he should come into the apartment while we were occupied. Then, she climbed into the lower bunk and helped me into position. She. Allison was firmly secured onto a rack where she could not move her ass an inch. The brander had offered to let me actually apply the iron to her flesh, but this was going to be a ‘tricky’ brand that had to be absolutely perfect, so with a short speech explaining to all the significance of Allison having removed the last physical marking that bound her to her old unhappy life and into her new one, I gave only a light very token touch to the iron as the brand was applied. Allison screamed that.