Parsons a ten dollar bill, and he went upstairs to find me the change. I didn't mind losing the money to him, he was the one who gave it to me in the ...irst place. I didn't like the actual losing to him though, especially when we had played the game I'd selected for us to play. I figured I could practice though and then win the money back the next time we played.Mrs. Parsons came home around five o'clock, and it was pretty obvious that she had been drinking a lot. I wondered if she had been. I'll make up a fresh bottle for her."Melody announced with a disappointed smile, "I'm afraid Cindy and Ihave to leave now. But if you need someone to babysit your big babygirl, June, just give me a call. I'll take 'special care' of yournaughty Baby Candy." Melody impishly added, "Your precious toddler girlcould even play Barbies with my Cindy, now that she has her very ownBarbie doll."Mandy looked down at me and sneered in contempt. "Oh my! PlayingBarbies with little Cindy! Wouldn't that be. The next time I saw Julia,I would make sure that I would thank her for doing her homework on whatthe weather would be like at each venue.Each step toward the stage brought the level of the rush I had beenfeeling all day closer and closer to the storm that I knew was coming.Each step closer provided me with a louder and louder roar from the crowd.The crowd here would be comparable to the crowd in Salt Lake, and thebackground noise of that many people talking and passing time until thebeginning. Corey leaned to his attorney and whispered, "I thought she was a friend.She's for women's rights, and I supported her in a debate in civics." Well, Corey," the attorney replied. "You're challenging her definitionof women. Let's listen."Corey returned his attention to Christine's testimony, unconsciouslybrushing his longish hair and then folding his hands in a dainty,feminine manner. "But it's more than disgusting," Christine said. "It's dead wrong, deadillegal. It's a perversion of the word.