"Princess Diana, what are you doing here?" she asked."I have come to see my mother and this detail of troops shall accompany me to the palace," Diana ...eplied.'You were recognized in the man's boat and the Queen has been notified that you are here. I don't know the Queen's reaction to all these men but I will escort you to the palace."The procession moved through the streets of the city towards the palace. Diana could feel all the eyes watching them pass from the houses along the way. When they. Wrapping through those hills were the asphalt roads that connected usall. As always, it was quiet. No one around here did anything afterdark. The parents stayed home, their children (if any) were too young tobe out at night. The one house that did have a daughter in college Ididn't have to worry about as she wouldn't have stayed in this countryhell when she could have been in the college town having fun. It was safe. I made my way boldly through the night to the house thatshared our hill.. I wanted to be able to claim total innocence when the shit hit the fan. In reality, I had paid off the video company and everything that happened was strictly the way I wanted it to be. They had an "original master" and plenty of original copies to prove that someone had to have substituted everything, so they were in the clear even though it was really them doing all the work.There was one more thing I had to do before I started the trip down memory lane. I had to spike both Paula's and. It didn't make much difference because once he met my Ma he never left. Did find out his given name was Jerrod but he hated to be called that. He and my Ma raised me; Jolly treated me like I was his own."My Ma and Jolly never got married. A piece of paper and some fancy words didn't matter to them. They loved each other somethin fierce." The old man got quiet for a bit."Don't really remember a lot about Ma, she died of the fever when I was ten. What I remember most was she always smelled of.