Yes, it would be great to be back home again. I noticed Vickie Marshall walking toward me."Are you ready, Linda?" she asked cheerfully."I guess, if I ...ust." I told her."Cheer up, Linda," she giggled. "It won't be so bad." Vickie placed her feminine hands on my back and nudged me toward a pack of little girls dressed the same way I was. ***The recital lasted over an hour and wasn't as painful as I thought it would be. Well, it wasn't something I would want to do again. We spread out our arms and. He was muscular like a super hero, which I could see in the tight, spandex-like shirt he wore.“Welcome back, Joshua.” He said as he walked over to me.“Who’re you? And what do you mean by ‘welcome back’? Back where?” I asked.He looked a bit perplexed and looked over to the first guy. The first guy shrugged.“Give me a min, I’ll do a scan.” The first guy said.“Thanks, Alex.” The second said before turning back to me.He crouched down to help me up.“Yep, something’s awry here. The scan shows his. All those who knew--Pierre, the beauty-salon man; Chiang, the Chinese cook and his friends; Dr. Goody; and of course, Jack--had taken his condition as a matter of course. In fact, they'd been aroused by it.Even that doorman and the delivery boy, who had jointly discovered his true gender, hadn't laughed. The rats raped him instead. It was humiliating and painful, but it didn't hurt as much as laughter would have.Suzie had come a long way in two years, but he continued to have mixed. And recalled that I didn’t revive Wilhelmina Halleck. The difference was striking. The point, of course, was that I had the right and authority to do with the dead as I deemed fit. Some I would bring back to life as undead retainers and such. Others I would leave to their natural fate. I had shown both fates now to the local citizenry. They would know that I kept my own counsel and made my own decisions which way to go.“Well now, my friend, I can’t allow someone who was just under temporary.