The taller - though they wereboth several inches shorter now - lifted his clear plastic face maskand pulled of his helmet.His helmet? The face was ov...l, the same coffee light color as thehands. There was a purplish liner that made the eyes look bigger. Thenoses were smaller, and the lips full, juicy, and colored the same asthe eyeliner. The face -- _her_ face was framed by dark brown hairthat curled as it grew down to her shoulders."I... this isn't right." She unbuttoned her uniform shirt.. " I will not repeat myself. Do not cross me, Joyce. Do I need to remindyou?" My God, Jackelyn, please don't go there. I can't believe you would bringthat up or hold that over me...you promised." Just do as I say." Oh yes, Joyce, I want you to prepare the papers to allow my son toofficially be named by my last name, not his father's." Holy Fuck, Jackelyn, what has happened?" Just making lemonade out of lemons, my old friend."The silence confirms her lawyer will perform as Mrs. Brekenridge. I was so scared.”“It’s OK. You had every right to be scared. You wanted a baby with me and the idea of your first being from another man caused you all sorts of distress.”“Distress? I hated him, Mick. It scared me, how much I hated him, how much hateful passion I had. When I was walking, I had the time to think and finally calmed down enough that I was able to let some logic in and let a lot of the hate go.”I looked at Kendi and knew that it was almost time to tell her the results.“Kendi, take. "They all waited for Cece to become at least minimally coherent, then Julia asked "Does this document contain anything besides straight history - facts?" Like what?" Sandy asked."Are there any personal comments? Apologies. Pledges of your love. Assurances that you did not mean to hurt them. Anything like that?" Three sets of downcast eyes gave her the answer, and she had to take a few deep breaths to quell the surge of anger.Rather dramatically, she handed the CDs back to Val and said "You can.