I have always wanted to have aperm. It will be so much fun to share the experience with Wendy. I willshow her how to act and tell her what to expect i... that big fish pond.Though I don't think the ladies there would like to know that we arethinking of them as big, floppy fish. Maybe better to think of them aspretty painted tropical guppies. I don't know If I will be able to keepa straight face at the salon tomorrow." Mom! I am not a fish. But I will try to swim upstream at the salon.Does a Perm. For the first time in my life I understood that I wasn't Supergirl. I could be hurt and I could be broken. It wasn't something you should know before your death watch. It made living very hard. According to all the doctors I had a pretty good chance for thirty or forty more years. I had no idea what those years were going to be like. I was sure as hell retired, and nothing was going to get me back into the business. I could not take that kind of abuse again.On the afternoon of the tenth day. Perhaps it was the cold materialistic personalities of his family. Maybe it was the lack of any personal challenges while in high school, a life where he had nothing to worry about apart from doing well in his next track meet. She became even more convinced that Jason needed her and the life she was preparing for him. He needed a partner who loved him, but he also needed someone who could watch over him and be firm with him. He needed direction and discipline to focus his energies. He also. Part of him wanted her to stop crying because he felt the agony of her heartbreak and sorrow as if they were his own. Part of him knew Ana needed this release. She needed reminding that being strong didn’t mean it wasn’t okay to say ‘ow’ when life hurt. He held her long after her tears faded into intermittent sniffles and then silence. She eased out of his arms but the instant their eyes met, her face crumpled again. ‘Oh, God.’ Her scratchy voice was loaded with remorse. ‘I’ve made you cry.’ .