"Wow," Roger smiled, "this calls for a celebration, right? It's Friday, so let's party!"The group spent the evening at their favorite hangout with the...r friends, celebrating yet another victory over the evil Program.The meeting with the school district officials took place the following Wednesday afternoon. News of the decisions of the federal courts had spread widely over the weekend and on Monday morning, when the selected Program student names were read in school, no one answered the summons. After some pointed questioning, Jason finally admitted to us that he had a gambling debt that he owed to the gang. It was substantial, and he didn't know how he could repay it."It was at this point that Natalie broke down, sobbing at the abduction of her sister. It was clear to me that Jason was the odd man out in the house as, under more normal circumstances, Natalie and her husband, Jeffery nearly ignored him.Natalie went on to relate how two days later, Jason received a DVD in the mail, and. "Home stretch girls! Finishthe hair, touch up her makeup, do the final fitting and put on herlingerie! Now enjoy this recording and pay close attention."Yelena hit play on the IPOD as the recording began to play in James'ear labeled "How to please your man for inexperienced girls." As itbegan play it said "This is a recording to teach women the arts of deepsensual kissing, erotic uses of your tongue, oral sex for beginners,and sexual positions designed to please him."James's chair was again. Obviously I am not much of a shopper.There were also three empty stores on the bottom level of the mall. Christmas had come and gone with no more than a turkey dinner at Jen's house for me. Followed by passing out of a few boxes of very expensive cookies. It looked as though for at least three retail shop it hadn't had a better Christmas than it had for me. All the stores in the mall seemed to have suffered to some extent during the season of giving. In the present economy I was told that it.