It was the day before her fourteenth birthday, and tomorrow the whole estate would be full of people celebrating. The servants were already busy, erec...ing the wooden poles upon which would be strung lights and pennants, whilst the kitchen worked round the clock. Today, though, she was on her own, at least as much as she ever was. The path she walked down skirted the neat topiary hedges that in turn framed several square gardens. Further down the path turned back to meet with the driveway, and. “I’ll tell you what I’ll do. I will give you one last chance, sort of a redo.”A big smile spreads over the girl’s face. “Alright, this time I’ll get it.”“What’s most useful when it’s long and hard?”“Ha!” she shouts. “Now I know it’s a dick. That is the only thing that’s useful hard. Otherwise it’s just boring.”“Wrong,” the sphinx says. “It’s something that you clearly need: an education.”“I’ve got one,” she says a bit off put. “I go to the East School...”“I don’t care where you go to school. I asked what she’d like to have for her birthday since it wasn’t far off.“I’d like to be eight again,” she replied, still looking in the mirror.On the morning of her birthday, I arose early, made her a nice big bowl of Coco Pops, and then took her to Adventure World theme park.What a day!I put her on every ride in the park; the Death Slide, the Wall of Fear, the Screaming Roller Coaster, everything there was.We staggered out of the theme park five hours later. Her head was reeling and her. ”With a dry, sore throat, she tried licking her lips to get some moisture. Finally, she managed a cracked “Hello.”“Lisa? Are you ok? You sound terrible.”She tried swishing her tongue around in her mouth to get some saliva going. “I’m here.” Her brain still muddled.“Were you still sleeping? It’s almost noon.”“Yea. I guess I must have dozed off for a minute.” Why did she suddenly feel the need to lie to her husband? The fact was she hadn’t been up yet. She didn’t even remember going to bed.She.