" Here is my word to you. You choose one to lead here. I will watch. If he is good, you can go on. If he is bad, I come back and take care of things f...r myself. Choose a wise man to lead, not a fool. A wise man will lead true. A fool will end up dead." Great one!" A young man approached. "You have taken my mother as wife. I unmarried but too old to live in my mother's hut. My name Jaklow. I Chanel's son and good hunter. I not find woman for wife yet, but I big help around camp. My father a fool. Stephanie began to giggle and said, “Well, Ok.” “Truth or Dare, Stephanie?” “Truth,” she answered quickly. “Have you ever kissed a boy?” I asked her. She looked at me with a twinkle in her eyes. “Maybe.” “Maybe? Maybe?? That’s not an answer! If you’re going to chicken and choose truth you’ve got to at least give me a straight answer,” I told her with feigned indignation. She rolled her pretty little eyes at me. “Okay Chad. No, I’ve never kissed a boy. Happy now?” I looked at her a little more. Please Honey. Pretty please be as happy as a bowl of rainbow ice creammade out of candy canes and pickles." And then she quickly adds, "Yuck.Not pickles." She laughs and waits hopefully for me. Then to her reliefI hesitantly giggle while this strange lady I didn't even know is huggingthe life out of me.She cups my tear soaked face in her hand and brings it so I am facing herand ever so gently wipes my tears. I slowly look up and she is kneelingthere and smiling. "Friends?" she says hoping I'll. Edith was laughing so hard thatshe was almost hyperventilating. Rhonda came back over to the trunk of the car, put her hand on myshoulder and said, "For the first time today, you broke your own rule.You panicked and looked really really (pause) stupid. Seeing you runlike that, you definitely looked like a boy wearing a dress. I don'tcare what else happens tonight, (said slowly with authority) don't youever do ANYTHING like that again when you're out with us dressed asJeannie." She turned and.