“You are about to succumb to the power of the sect of womanhood empowerment……….we who have cunts………I, as the channel of this holy sect t...day……. am going to demonstrate to my fellow sisters that I can willingly destroy your maleness, both physically and mentally. I am going to make you become all but a shell of a man.”She continued her address.“What are you…200…220 pound?....that is twice what I weigh….but I have a cunt…that means I will destroy you”Then softer to me.“And I hope you try to. It was like walking in a dream state with someone else in control of what either of them did. For some reason neither seemed to mind too much."But, I don't need a babysitter." John protested that night. "John was old enough not to have a babysitter, but Linda is now." Martha said in Frank's authoritative voice. "For now on you're Linda."John just sighed and gave in as the sixteen year old girl who was a forty year old woman before The Great Shift, smiled with her books pressed under her. ” So I took a deep breath and stood up. A shot went whistling over my head.I yelled, “If you come out right now Melvin we are NOT going to charge you with shooting at us. If you take another shot, you are going to do hard time for a decade. If you hit me it’s going to be life. So, which is it? You have ten seconds to decide.”There was a hesitation. Then the door of the trailer opened, and Melvin came out bleary eyed, unshaven and wearing a pitted-out wife beater. He was holding his hands up. I. It turns out she found a guy about a week after she began. He turned out to be very controlling and he gradually cut all of her old friends out of her life. She tried to break up with him a few times but they always got back together. She eventually left him when she took this job in the Capital. She hadn’t told him where she was. Before too long life was back to normal, well, as normal as it can be for a graduate teacher. Although working at different schools Jane and I saw a lot of each.