I thought you were buds with her like you are with me."I raised my eyebrows."Really?" I asked. "I mean, I tried not to fall all over myself. But, in a...l the time you've known me, has there ever been a time I didn't eventually relent to whatever Kellie wanted?"Carrie looked pensive, as if she were searching her memories."No," she said. "I can't really think of anything." And have there been times I have refused to do something for you or Greg?" I asked.She laughed out loud."Dozens," she said,. “Oh?”“You’re here for something else.” He quickly glanced to Antoinette, still behind him, but she looked intrigued more than anything.“Am I?” The sparkle in Elaine’s eye announced her excitement that he had the balls to confront her like this. “Then do tell, Jack Terry. What am I here for?”So much for not bringing this topic up in the middle of the ballroom floor. Ugh, being surrounded by beautiful women did a number on his thinking ability.“I—” No. Wait. Be smart about this. For once, stop. I'd do it over again, in a New York minute.-"Thanks again Fran and John, now lets go check on Joan," Doug said.-It was like waking from a bad hangover, as the sounds of the audience'sgasping, hit my eardrums, "Tom how bad is it?" I asked in a raspy voice.Oh God the bitch went so far as to steal my voice, singing was always oneof my greatest pleasures, and now I had lost this too. My eyes wefocusing, In one monitor was a gray haired fat sobbing blob. In the otherwas a skinny crying. Then I shrugged, and started my shower. When I was done showering, I dried myself off, then did what I'dbeen dying to do since I'd climbed out of the bathtub. I looked in the mirror. The woman that looked back was gorgeous, which was as I'd planned of course. But to see that image reflected back at me was quite different from seeing the design on my computer. She/I looked to be in her/my mid twenties, had long red hair, and intense green eyes. My face was a models, and my lips looked.