Grandpa went to court and got the marriage annulled so Paul couldn't come back and try to take me away. Mom never blamed me for the breakup, although ...'m fairly certain my birth had a lot to do with it.Mom didn't try the marriage thing again until she was twenty-four years old. By then I was about five and a half and she wanted me to have a father figure around to help me grow up. Grandpa lived about 225 miles away in another town—too far away to be an effective father figure. Besides he was. "Okay, I did," Amy admitted."And he was straight?" Selina asked."I thought he was," Amy scoffed.Selina eyed Phil being incredibly gay by ordering a fruity drink."This wasn't supposed to happen. You can't be having sex with straightmen from now on," she said."Why the hell not?" Amy asked. If she was completely sober, she wouldhave torn Selina a new one."You're going to turn all the men in this town gay if you do," shewarned."What are you talking about?" Amy asked impatiently."The spell was to. There was nothing I could point to that would indicate it was ever anything but what it looked like so she could only take my word for it.I started back to the car but she grabbed by sleeve and said, “Let’s go out to where you talked to her. Maybe there’s something there.”“Sherry, there’s nothing out there but wheat stubble. I’m not even sure exactly where we were standing.” I waved my hand in a general direction. “It was just somewhere out there toward the middle. I really wasn’t paying that. I took two pillows from the bed and placed them against the back of the chair. I motioned for Ella to sit on the chair backwards."That's not how it was in the video, she reminded me, recalling the scene she had witnessed as a young prepubescent girl. I just shook my head, and motioned for her to sit down, which she did. I took the rope and tied her arms to the back legs of the chair. I then secured her ankles to the front two chair legs. Her body was pressed into the two pillows, with her.