”“Sitting down?”“Am now.”“Craig and I are getting married,” she said, “and we’d like for you to give me away.”“Alicia! That’s ...he best news I could hear.”“We’re on the speaker phone,” said Craig. “We know you have commitments. Other guests have them, too, and would like a weekend. We were thinking of April, but we could push it later.”“May I get back to you?”“Certainly. Because of the church, Easter weekend would be a bad choice.”“This is great news,” Dad said.“I’m going to be paying some of. " She said."Oh, I won't be able to do it, but I think that Sur'ha will be able to, I've handed her over to help with Simon." I said."And what do you see in Simon?" Nichole asked."He's an enigma. The Casper's see something in him, so he has potential. Hopefully, once he's back to normal, we'll find out." I said"What if this is 'his' normal appearance?" She asked meI shook my head, "No, there is something deeper. He's had a difficult childhood and this was just the final straw. Once we gain his. Every street it seemed had a book seller on it. Jews and pagans were practicing their faith openly. The people were worse, for they didn’t seem to give a fart about these high church officials and what they were doing. It wasn’t until the officials tried to close down a public bath house that people got pissed, and they got pissed with the church officials. The public bath houses were mixed genders and mixed ages and had hot, cool, and cold-water pools. In addition to bathing, swimming lessons. I went to the end of it and stripped out of my shorts and t-shirt then came out of the alley wanking slowly. They all howled with laughter when they saw me, some of them encouraged me, others shouted out insults. Three girls advanced to me menacingly so I ran back down the alley to get dressed. But the girls ran after me and caught up with me before I could get dressed. They threw me to the ground and stood around me, kicking me and insulting me as I cried out for mercy. Two of them dragged me.