" "You mean we have the whole Carnival to ourselves?" "I told you, I had a surprise." We walked to the back side of the Carnival grounds and stood bef...re a large, colorful carousel. "I remembered how you loved carousels, so hop up. I'll be right back." You stood next to a white horse with a large, brightly colored, red, blue, and gold saddle. You searched, looking off in the darkness for me. Suddenly you heard a rumbling noise, a grinding whir of motors, and the slow, dragging, beginnings of. ” Jessica told her father, “The world is no longer a safe place, and those who mean to do harm to children, can use Facebook and other websites like that to trick kids into going places they shouldn’t. The only time she allowed Liam and Gabriella their phones are when they have school clubs and when they go out with their friends, so that they can call you or mom if they are running late, or if there’s any trouble. The rest of the time, if they want to talk to their friends, they use the house. But when drunk and depressed?"I shrugged my shoulders, "Who knows? It was either an accident, or when drunk he decided to end it all. But either way, it wasn't really intentional."Ralph smiled, "You're right. Neither of you bear any responsibility, whatever he was thinking or doing."Suddenly a thought went through my head, "Will you let Susan know?" If I have a chance. But we aren't talking, and I'm not going to make a special effort to tell her about her co-conspirator."And then I had another. Again, sorry, Mom, but having done that stuff, it seems silly to use little kiddie words for the private parts anymore. She told me that I owed her and that if I didn't do it, she'd lie and tell Dad that I had raped her. I did it and I liked it, but I still felt bad, because she's Dad's wife, my stepmother."We did that a couple more times before Dad caught her with Uncle Red and three black men. They were doing what Dad called a 'gang-bang'. She said that it was rape, but not even Dad believed.