"He would have been here Bill, but he's in hospital," said Vikki drawing Bill's attention to her. "We were attacked last night in the park just up fro... Justin's place. If he wasn't for my darling Justin I don't know where I would be now." And she went on to tell the whole story of how she and Justin spent the evening at the 'Multitude of Sins' concert with Sarah and Robin and two friends, of their walk in the park and the vicious attack before telling of the memorable events earlier in the. Has been a long time. I was just telling sister here it must be five or six years." Well, we're mighty glad you came, Wanda. House is kinda empty with just Bette Jean and Gary and me. Lots of room. Sure is nice you've come for a visit. You have, haven't you?"The pink tongue came out to wet the pouty coral mouth. "Well, I hope you'll let me stay a while. I should have let you know, I guess, but I'm not much good at writing." Lester! Go get some clothes on!" She hadn't meant for her voice to. "Change Is Good."Change is good; pain is right.To be understood you got to fight.No hiding hood, no out of sight.You must be rude, to be a fright.Change is good; pain is right.The song had five verses, two at the beginning and two at the end grouped together. The first two repeated separately after the third, the chorus coming after each one. The last two verses stood out. They were sort of about death, but death as change, a positive thing as in the death card in the tarot deck. Dotty was. . UNCLE," Amelie ordered, scowling in heavily accented English."Well, sweetie, Amelie then," I responded, my sarcasm perhaps outside the grasp of her perception, "Welcome to the greatest country in the world, the United States of America — your new home!" Ah oui, home of the beeg Mac, George Bush and the whooper," my sneering niece answered.'Jesus, ' I thought, silently appraising the beautiful, young woman in front of me, 'I wonder how long it will take me before I have that haughty smirk.