The scent of her cologne preceded her into the living room. The lights of the Christmas tree cast a heavenly glow on her. She wore a sheer, floor-leng...h negligee and carried a down comforter from their bedroom. George watched her walk slowly to the coffee table where her unfinished brandy sat. She lifted it to her lips and downed it in one gulp."Help me put the pearls on," she whispered to him, "and then make love to me."He stood as ordered and clasped the string at the back of her neck. She. . that's what we were up against, and just to enhance the negatives was the very basic question of how to get pregnant when sex with men is the very last thing a lesbian wants. Friends told us funny but mildly disgusting tales of sperm-donors dashing from the bathroom with a few drops of semen in a cup, fumbling women with Turkey-basters, and the recipient keeping her legs in the air for hours, while hoping against hope.Despite everything stacked against it, by the summer of 1981 we had. "Police confirmed the injured person as Karen Langner, the life partner of Assistant District Attorney Maureen Darling. Sources have confirmed that Ms. Langner was rushed to Penn General Hospital, suffering from multiple head trauma. Missing from the residence is Deirdre Darling, the eighteen year-old daughter of Ms. Darling. The young Miss Darling is a Senior at Benjamin Franklin Preparatory School. Both the whereabouts of Miss Darling and the motive behind this violent crime are still in the. Then she threw it all up.Sitting in her cell, now, Alicia thought it strange how some memories seemed so vivid, like that croc attack and eating the orange snake, and how hard it was to remember the faces of her old family. She could see the outlines and hear their voices, but the exact appearance of her parents, her brother or her late husband, for the time being, anyway, eluded her.She lay down on her jail cot and closed her eyes, continuing the journey through the memories of her mind.There.