..and I also heard back from the repair shop." "Oh really?" I said. "Is the car gonna live?" "It’s gonna live, Maya. New alternator, it will be do...e tomorrow, can't get to it before then. Will that work for you?" "Well I don't really have a choice, now do I?" I said. "I think I'll survive for another day here in millionaire's paradise though, so it's okay." You chuckled in response then you reached a little bit. "Need me to bring you anything? How about a forty-something boy-toy? Got any. They were far too thin and very smooth in their nearhairlessness. He shook his head as if to clear out the sight and felthair sweep against his neck and shoulders.Looking up at his comrades, Ludecker saw that they were all undergoingsimilar transformations. Derrick Brooks, as the first to starttransforming was the furthest along. Brooks was getting visiblyyounger and chubbier looking before his eyes. He already looked morelike a girl than a man, a short chubby girl with thick glasses and. " It's done, Jake. You can accept that now, or you can let her unleashhell on you, and then she'll leave you by the curb. One way or theother, you will lose."I lifted my head. "We've got 11 years together, Ray-Ray. I have to giveit a chance." Remember Davie Jernigan?" Ray-Ray said. He walked to the bar and gotanother Scotch. "He cheated on his wife, Jenny, with the babysitter andshe caught him. He lives in a dog cage now. A three-by-three dog cage.He eats out of a bowl. He's been drugged so. The state has decided my piece of paradise is where they are going to re-route a major highway. It’s going to go right through my living room and kitchen and outside through my patio and hot tub. This plan is not good for my want of privacy and peace and quiet.The state made an offer of 1 million dollars, take it or leave it. If I refuse the cash buyout, they will claim the entire property by use of the eminent domain clause. I would like to say I fought this tooth and nail and clawed a.