”“Gosh, I never expected anything like this. Can you give me a ride to your place? If I take my car, the photo vultures will follow me and you’l... have them to deal with at your house from then on,” Clarice said.“Sure, I can do that. Why don’t you get some clothes to show the girls and maybe a makeup kit, and anything else you think would be fun?” I said.“OK, Mr. Gallo. I’ll go get ready,” Clarice replied.“Please, call me Paul,” I told her.“And you should call me Clarice,” She said.I looked at. Lily spent her first day in solitary. Her first of several interrogations began the following day. Simple verbal questioning rapidly escalated to abuse over the course of two days. She’d only been able to endure less than 15 minutes of wrist-cuffed suspension and ten blows of a leather strop before she revealed all she knew of her husband and the Confederation—which was very little—but her interrogators enjoyed lashing her firm flesh so they continued the pretext of working as they laid on with. However, he never left the Auer property without Helen’s permission, and there was little hope that she would send him to town again the very next day after he’d just been. Store visits didn’t come that often.His ear twitched again. He stood up and shook off the wetness from the clover patch. No sense lying around there any longer.As he padded up the slope toward the house, he weighed the options for what to do next but came up with nothing better than going inside to get a drink from his water. Closer to the house, my parents had long ago built a screened cement patio.One night in summer, I was out of school and wasn't scheduled to go into the convenience store until 10:30 or so. My father was on a three-day business trip and my baby sis Lisa (who, in actuality, wasn't all that much of a baby at 14) was sleeping at a friend's house. I was in my room, nude, when my mom stopped by and asked if I wanted to come out back and enjoy the evening breeze. I said sure and moved to put on some.