I dreaded telling Dad that Roger had lost his decency somewhere along the lines, if he’d ever been respectable.This wasn’t just about him being an...asshole. It wasn’t even just about Rose and Felicity anymore. This had become incredibly personal. Dan Tierney had messed up my life, too. He threatened me, terrified me, hurt people who had become important to me. To see these people whose job it was to seek vengeance so cavalierly dismiss our suffering made me nearly blind with rage.“That won’t be. Over the next ten years life went on for me like normal, but it was a very bland world. I attended community college and dated like most girls. I learned to drink and smoke pot and go to concerts and parties and the mall like almost everyone else. But there was a big exception. I went to that nude beach every week, at least once a week for six to eight months out of the year. I never told any of my normal friends or anyone from my family. The beach was like my own special secret world.I was. "I-I am Maria. Maria Sanchez," she said."Well, Maria Sanchez, the way I see it, you got lost going to the public library which is located at the end of the road from our house. This is a private residence of the "Master" which is my great grandfather Señor Miguel who was long been gone a few hundred years ago and you are reading his mistress's diary." David patiently explained."Oh my God!" Maria exclaimed. "Oh, I am so sorry!"Embarrassed, Maria reached for the offered hand and as their hand. At last. The boys and the girls saw him differently. Suddenly he had friends!I didn't like to shop but I was a happy shopper today after seeing Chris finally defend himself. He did it in a definitive manner too. Tommy and Danny were unlikely to mess with him again.I stopped at the mall. I needed new shoes. For items I hadn't purchased yet while living in 1984, I always initially thought the prices were great bargains. I always had to remind myself that I wasn't making as much money, so the.