..."Over to the mirror he scurried now with the rollers freed from his headwith a knot in his stomach wound up tightly as anything that waspreviously ...ound tightly in his hair. As he stopped he felt ready tothrow up yet as sick as he felt about how all this had transpired he wasmore astonished that the young woman that stared back at him actuallywas him.His first reaction was to reject any notion that this reveal was in facthim yet it was certainly his face under all that makeup and his. I WILL ALWAYS BELONG TO YOU AND CARRY THAT VERY MARK UNTIL MY LAST DYING BREATH LEAVES MY VESSEL IN WHICH YOU HAVE LEARNED TO TRUST AND BECOME LOYAL TO ONLY YOU. I HAVE TRIED TO LOVE OTHERS TO BECOME CLOSE TO ANOTHER AND NON CAN COME CLOSE TO YOUR RESTRAINT UPON ME. I LOVE ONLY THEE FOR NOW AND ALWAYS UNTIL MY ETERNITY UPON THIS EARTH IS DONE AND IF ANY OTHER IS TO EVER CONCLUDE OR MY SOUL AND ENERGY GOES ON TO BECOME WHAT EVER YOU HAVE DECREED IT TO BE. OUR HANDFASTING HAS BEEN ALREADY SEALED. One night, as I was studying in the kitchen while awaiting a chance to sit in on a hand at the Card Club, Etta came in to mix herself a drink while she was waiting for a rubber to end at the next table she was scheduled to join. "Your mom tells me you think you may want to become a lawyer someday," she said. Etta was a secretary at a prominent local law firm. "Quite possibly," I replied. Etta responded: "Well, why don't you come down to my law firm and chat with the senior partner I work for. His uniform floated away down streamand vanished around a bend in the creek. Down stream, the creek fed areservoir where most of Central Pennsylvania acquired their drinkingwater. By morning much of the state would be in the grips of theworst epidemic in history. The Boogeyman lurched toward the police cruiser and opened the hatch."Good, a ride..." he said and chuckled. He might make it to Washingtonafter all. He climbed inside and closed the hatch. No one saw thepolice HOV lift jerkily.