You have a penchant for finding and exploiting weakness."It had now been nine weeks since Emily had discovered her husband in the arms of another woma.... Despite his every effort to reconcile, Emily had rebuffed Allan and filed for a divorce. By doing so she had played into the master's hands. The loss of her marriage, loneliness, and isolation teamed with her own crumbling self esteem were indeed creating feelings of inadequacy and that meant she was vulnerable to his masterful. "Vicki, I am sorry, I didn't mean to upset you, I was unsure how to start this, please listen." I nodded as she looked around again. My eyes followed hers, the blinds were closed, she had closed them this morning, because of the sun.The windows to the corridor, she had partially blocked with a poster and a spare whiteboard. She froze again for a second, looking around and licking her lips nervously. Finally my tears had stopped; I sniffed "so nobody is in trouble?" she shook her head, relief. " Well, my dream lover," she continued, "I'm going to this college next fall. I'm a virgin. I have kissed maybe seven or eight boys, slapped two of them who touched my breasts, and let my best friend in high school feel me through my sweater. Do you think I am ready for college?" Tiny... Beth, I'm not the person to talk to you about this." No," Beth countered stubbornly, "you're exactly the person to talk to me."I hesitated, trying to escape this embarrassing situation. Finally I stammered,. I promised to be back that night.It wasn’t what I expected. President Barzani personally asked me to visit Syrian Kurdistan and to see the conditions there, so that I could report back to the world what was happening. He would send me with some Peshmerga bodyguards and whatever reporters he could scrounge up, so that a Westerner could report on what was happening there to the rest of the world. He thought I would be more credible than a reporter or a Kurd. I didn’t tell him, but I suspected he.