" So what do you want? What do you want me to do?" Simple. Foster hate. Destroy lives, families and countries. Destroy and pervert love wherever you f...nd it." Love is fakery. A lie to sell flowers and greeting cards." Then help me eliminate it." What do I get for this?" Power. The power of a god. One of my earliest avatars was Ares, a god already. With my extra power, he perverted Aphrodite, and brought about the destruction of the Greeks, the Egyptians, and the Roman Republic and created the. . uh..." Please, Annie? Please? You have to. I'll die if you don't" Virginity isn't fatal, Mary, just very depressing." Annie, were you masturbating in the shower? You had a very strange look on your face. I want that look too. Teach me how to do it. I've never touched myself down below. Not like that." Doesn't your church consider masturbation to be a sin?" Actually, Baptists have no clear position on masturbation. Unlike the Roman Catholic Church which considers the practice morally. "Some time soon I'd like you to meet my family," Simon said."So would I." I'll have to try and fix it for a weekend when Tricia's at home." How often's that?" A bit like you. Once or twice a month." OK, my love. My every weekend now is yours so just let me know."Simon smiled delightedly and he squeezed her hand. "That sends shivers of happiness down my spine."She smiled equally happily back at him. "It gives me all warm and squidgy feelings." Squidgy?"She blushed slightly and glanced down. After more than an hour of looking atthe pills and fighting my natural instinct to stay alive, I gave up, andput the pills back in their bottle, and shook with agony and grief untilI fell asleep.The next day, I went out to a quiet field behind my house, sat down, andlooked up in the sky.Then I started screaming.I shouted as loudly as I could, calling God every name I could think of,using more swear words in this speech than I had used in the sixteenyears previous. I think my idea was to get.