I'm sure she could fake crying, but I wasn't sure she was up to faking tears. When she looked at me, there were tears."I screwed up. You. Bad. Turned ...y back on my own kid and left you." Mizz Helen's a wonderful person." I know she is. Told me how the cow ate the cabbage, too. Sort of pushed me into leaving you with 'er, you know, and me, stupid, starry-eyed me, I was going to go to Vegas and live the good life." Her shoulders heaved. A sob. It was a sob."I guess in my train wreck of a life,. The only thing consistent was that they were all naked and all had sustained some kind of fatal wound. Regardless of the injuries they appeared to bear, every stranger was sporting a euphoric grin from ear to ear and with their eyes as wide as could be. Even with blood pouring from their bodies, they had the expressions of kids running through the parking lot of Disney World. Achieve death, they screamed that line over and over again, yet Jason had no idea what it meant. Normally he would be. We got in the Aero Commander and took off to the south. We turned and flew north along the beach, past my house and around the northern end of Long Island. We flew southeast down the Long Island sound to the East River. The houses along the coast were most interesting. We followed the East River past the skyscrapers of Manhattan, to the Hudson. We flew over Governors Island and circled the Statue of Liberty. We turned east and flew by Coney Island then followed the Long Island barrier islands. Sophia was frogmarched into her large kitchen/diner and it became obvious to her that this had been well planned, the 6 chairs had been moved from around her solid oak farmhouse dining table, she saw the ropes tied to each leg of the table and knew instinctively that they were there to restrain her in place. Fighting hard to prevent them moving her Sophia found herself being held by the guy standing behind her, the one in front then raised his hands and fondled her breast's through her summer.