"Oh, he was good, just busy." Her ex-mother in law, who Missy called Nana, said."He was busy, alright." Her mother, who Missy called Gramma, said not ...ooking at the mirror, but out the window.Dianna decided to drop it, at that point.Dropping off the two women meant goodbyes to Missy and thanking them for taking Missy and all. Soon Dianna was on her way home with Missy."So how was your Daddy? Did you do much together?" She asked."No, he had 'portant bizness trip." Missy said in 5 year-old speak.. Naked. Wrist and ankle cuffsbuckled securely. Her legs spread uncomfortably wide, locked to a three footspreader bar. Her arms hoisted high over her head, held fast by a steel cableon an electric winch, pulling her into a tenuous position up on the balls ofher feet. The cold concrete floor useless in relieving the building pressure inher shoulders. A symmetrical pattern of sixteen thick needles piercing herright breast. The outside of her left breast the current object of Myattention. The slap. Except for the corner booths which were slightly larger, each of the booths was built to hold four people. Most of the booths were occupied but usually by only two or three men. I didn't see any other women in the bar.I gathered my courage in order to face another humiliating request for money and no doubt another denial because no one in their right mind would loan money to my husband and me now. I wouldn't loan me money!I couldn't seem to look away as I walked toward the back of the room to. Oh, by the way, we are finished and through with each otherI must bluntly add. You seem to not remember that I exist in your life and days, right, my cute one? The way he is posing all this to me? It is as excessively sweet and pleasant-sounding as he can best make it. This is how he articulates: Not with a piercingly callous and vinegary voice, but a quite humbled and tuneful tenor. It feels like he is in fact whispering to me, though a commonplace whisper wouldnt be hearable enough. His.