" The gigglesevolve into out and out laughter from my two friends as I sit thereholding a piece of paper in my hand blushing.We spend the next few ho...rs drinking and laughing. We danced a littlebit with each other, at least I did. Jenny and Katie both accepted danceoffers from various guys in the bar. I always refused, using an excusethat I had just broken up with my boyfriend and one of the girls alwaysmade sure I was not left alone. I don't think we paid for a drink afterthat first one. . Looking straight at his mother, he gave the traditional order: "Disrobe, cunt!"Sue obeyed immediately, undoing the sash. And now I had a moment of anxiety: Tradition holds that the woman be provocatively posed at the moment of Unveiling. Turns out I had nothing to worry about. She now stood completely naked, one knee bent in front of the other, foot arched, toes pointing, and her arms hung limply by her sides, displaying her utter powerlessness."Step forward, kneel before me, and bow your head,. "Some people had pretty high opinions of me." She replied."That is true, alpha bitch. Especially me. Get your ass home."Stacy had died two years after her son was born. Her will decreed that her son live with his godmother and her partner (now married legally) as she felt that he would have been better treated there then anywhere else. And he had gotten along with the two other children that the couple had themselves by a posthumous sperm donor named David Findley in his will.It had been pretty. The robe I was wearing shined,brilliantly lit in the morning sunlight. I slowly approached a tree near thetop of this small rise. Lincoln's eyes were filling with sadness and tears."Please... Claire... please..."My mind was torn between where I was and where I had come from...How could this have happened? I picked a single flower from the grassand made my way up the hill. Lincoln came no further; he seemed tohave resigned his fate to my decision, whatever that might be.I looked back at him and.