Oh, God, how there were pictures! Pictures ofyours truly, in just about the most feminine, frivolous and downright girlyoutfits you could possibly ima...ine. I felt like a giant Barbie doll, whichin a way, I was.But I was determined not to let my sentence go any longer than it absolutelyhad to. So I obeyed the girls and my mother, and I wore the make-up, andthe skirts, and the dresses without complaint or equivocation.On my birthday, the girls gave me more feminine finery. I wanted new gamesfor. " I grinned, feeling better and better with every passing minute. "My dad would kill me if I got a boyfriend." If you just got a boyfriend?" Deke smiled. "Or if you got a black boyfriend?" Uh ... Both!" I giggled and then his hand was moving up under my skirt a little, giving my thigh a squeeze and I tried to push Deke's hand away, but I ended up just holding it, feeling his fingers against my warm white skin as he massaged me gently."Your daddy doesn't have to know," Michael chuckled, "Just a. That is a medical work up, as I mentioned in the e-mail. If you don’t have a problem with that, you can do it right after we’re done and I’ll e-mail you one way or another on the news.” I smile, but, before I can finish, he keeps talking. “Now, if you are hired, we would like to see you join us at least once a month. You can stay a few hours, a night, a whole weekend. But, we want the people we hire, to be active, even a little. You’re paid for your time here. You’ll make three grand a day,. Perhapsthese answers will emerge after death, but I wouldn't bet on it. But whatstrange creatures we are! And what a strange place this is! People writeabout the strange planets & satellites we've discovered in the solar sys-tem; but is there any place around here that's stranger than this planet?--with its highly reactive atmosphere & covered with a sort of green stuffthat turns out to be fantastically complicated solar-powered systems ofchemical reactions, with other similar systems moving.