"I bid you all a gracious good evening. It is my sincere hope that you will find a modicum of enjoyment in the acts of magic that I shall endeavor to...perform for you this evening. "However, in order for me to proceed any further, I require the assistance of a male member of the audience. "Normally, at this juncture, I would ask for a volunteer from the audience. But as I understand it, there's a gentleman here who is celebrating his birthday. So, if I could prevail upon him to join me on. Her mindmoved onto work and she did not think any more until, guiltily, she'phoned home to talk to Chris just to say all was well.ChrisHanging up from the Transatlantic call, Chris returned to the dressingtable and removed the face mask gel. It left his skin feeling smoothand supple. He delved into his cache of cosmetics and removed a largecontainer of gel originally prescribed for Christine as part of herhormone replacement therapy. Fortunately, the hormonal gel was arepeat prescription for. ’ ‘How many kids do you have?’ ‘Well talk about it later. I want to call my livestock agent.’ The agent was unable to say how long would it take to procure 500 llamas but it was unlikely he could fill that order any time soon. It could take several months as they were only four times as abundant as hen’s teeth. He laughed as his own joke. He called back an hour later and said he had sourced twenty-four suri llamas, the smooth-coated type, and could have them delivered ready for barging over on. Big carrots work muchbetter than nasty sticks when it comes to skilled labor. We were on atight schedule."I could hear various saws buzzing, hammers banging, and other loudnoises coming from inside my area of the apartment, indicating thatthe workmen were in there, applying their skills. If Brandy had onlytaken that approach with me in the beginning, I would have been morecooperative. I wondered if she had come on to me like a bull in achina shop on purpose back then, just so she could have me.