I appealed to his friendship. I needed to know what the problem was that was making it so difficult for us to work together. (I knew what my problem w...s, but I had to hear from him what his problem was.) He made me promise that I wouldn’t hold what he said against him. He implied that he was worried that I would bring a sexual harassment charge against him. I had to smile. The thought had occurred to me that he might do the same thing to me. And then he opened up to me. For the first time one. I got tattooed because I wanted it. Come on, Hazel, you should be at home waiting for your husband.” “I dare not let him see me like this. There is no telling what he will do.” “Come on, I will wait with you.” said Jaqueline. “We will both wait with you.” said Mary.Mitsumi stripped, revealing all her tattoo work to Jaqueline. “I don’t see that I should be the only one who is not naked. I am coming as well.” “Good God, I thought that Hazel had a big tattoo; you are totally covered, even your. " But, you ... and the kids..." You can owe me some special treat." Even as I said that, I tried to conjure up what kind of special treat I could think of. Nothing came to mind that I wasn't already enjoying.Stacy chewed on the idea for a while. She had a real approach-avoidance thing going on. I couldn't understand why she wasn't leaping at the opportunity.I posed another discussion question to Stacy and the others. "Here's another question, only slightly related to the first. Say you're away. I brought her inside and gave her some watered down milk. She puked it up almost right away. I ran down to the 24 hour grocery store across the street and got some kitten milk and kitten chow. When I got back she had wiggled her way out of the box I’d put her in and gotten on the top of my fridge some how, and was once again mewing helplessly. I stared up at her, ‘What did you do? Teleport?’ I chuckled. I pulled her down and fed her the kitten milk. She purred and then fell asleep purring.