”Repeating the words taught to us over the thunder of the falls, I raised a wooden bowl filled with ringriver water above Ananya’s head.While Zuri...and I had retained Mother’s observances and celebrations, we’d remade many of her rituals. There were no death-defying plunges for our daughters, no endurance marches naked in the cold. Waking the children just before dawn, it had taken just half an hour of walking before we’d glimpsed the first soft shades of pink and yellow canyonland rock peeking. “My Father tied us out in the barn and took everything out of our room. No phone, no bed, no clocks, no clothes!” She explained. “He scared the hippies off with a shotgun so they would never come back.”I nodded in understanding.“That summer he made us earn back all our priveledges. We worked in the barn from sunrise to sunset. We slept in the barn. We ate in the barn. We got the strap three times a day whether we needed it or not just to keep our attitude in check,” My Aunt told the story, and. He told me that I was his first. He didn't force me into it, I did it voluntarily, but it was all Timmy's idea and Timmy has a way of making sure that he gets whatever he wants.His dad has some high paying power job and they have the biggest and nicest house in the neighborhood. With a huge in ground pool in the backyard. Timmy invited me over to go swimming. Just him and me and nobody else in the house. He talked me into taking off my swim trunks to go skinny dipping with him. When we both got. Theold animated Disney movie. Every time my sister watched it, I would"happen" to be in the room and watch it too. I couldn't get enough ofit. I wished I could be transformed into a beautiful woman likeCinderella was. But that was fantasy."Well I heard something different," said Jack."What?" Well, the theory is, waking and dreams are just alternate realities.The trick to making your dreams come true, is to make them more realthan reality." And how would anyone do that?" Well again, and this is.