It is one of the nerves that make up the autonomic system of all people. It starts in the Medulla Oblongata, the lower brain stem. Its main purpose is...to give people a certain level of control over the autonomic systems, things like being able to hold your breath or slow your heart rate." He turned to his tablet and added a new image to the screen. It looked identical to the original image they had on the screen earlier. He rotated and zoomed in this image to match the other one."As you can see. Candace was my real name, but ?Candy Cane? was my stagename. I hated it, and Rick knew that. Like I said, Rick was good at hurtingpeople. Christy was like a sister to me. We met in the orphanage,and a few years later we both ended up in this sleazy little club. We usuallystripped together at ?The Eager Beaver?. What can I say,it?s better than working as a hooker. Practically all of us at the club were poor, skinny girlsthat had no families. We called an older fat bartender ?Pop? and someone. "I think the machine causes some kind oftemporary euphoria -- at least I hope it's temporary. The way Andrewand Evan were acting Saturday..." I've hardly found anything reliable about that machine," Dad said,sounding even more frustrated than he'd been all evening. "I keep turningup obvious pieces of fiction -- most of them indecent --" (I could tellhe was trying to avoid saying "porn") "-- that don't match what you'vesaid about it, and some things that *might* be reports of people usinga. She was mine!!!I woke up the next day alone in my bed and Chloe was sitting in her bed writing in what looked like a brand new journal. “When did you get that journal?”“Last night before you came home.”I didn’t see the journal last night when I came home and I know she has never written in a journal before so I obviously knew something was going on but I just didn’t know what. I thought it was just fun writing or something for school.A couple of days passed and I came home and of course she was.