That was when I started crying. Bethwas nowhere to be seen. Holly put on a mock concerned voice and said:"Aww don't cry, princess. You don't want to r...in your makeup. We willjust put it on you again. You better get used to it. You will bewearing makeup the rest of the school year. Look in the mirror. That'sright pansy, look. This is what we did to you. And what we will keepdoing to you. You are just a little girl for us to play with now."At this point Beth returned with a little poster board. “Suddenly, with little more than a perfunktory knock, into her office bursts Dalene's fellow worker and close friend, Linda. As the blonde grabs a look at the material onscreen, Dalene fumbles to clear it away. „Just working on some reports,“ she mumbles.As Linda begins to explain that she won't be able to go out on the town with her that evening, Dalene's phone rings.„Do you know who that was?“ the girl asks after a brief conversation. „Marion Alexander!“„Are you serious?“ Linda gasps. „Ms.. I’m sitting on the floor with my sister. She toddled over to me with one of the books she keeps here, and we’re going through the pages looking at animals. That’s entirely age-appropriate. That she’s trying to tell ME what’s on the page, a continuous stream of what MUST be a language, that part isn’t. She keeps looking at me to see if I’m getting all this.“Anyway,” Mom says, “we waited. We have news.”Okay. Mom says ‘news’. Mister Bill looks like the cat that ate the canary. I am now listening. Then you were told to raise your left arm and felt the same soft canvass being strapped to it at wrist, elbow and just under your armpit. This was repeated on your right arm and then a piece of canvass was strapped to your legs individually and again the straps were at crutch level, knee and ankles.Then almost alarmingly you heard the distinctive movement of chains, being moved into place, you felt the slight tug on several points of the back support, before feeling yourself being pushed back.