" "I'm sorry." "I just went and checked your computer. Do you want to have sex with a black man?" "It's a fantasy, Gina. It relieves the stress of tha... horrible job. You know how much I love you. I would never do a thing to hurt our marriage." "I'm not mad. I married a pretty guy with pierced ears and long hair that knew how to treat me right. You've turned into our redneck neighbor Mike. I don't like the beer drinking, the cursing or the aggressiveness and you using the "n" word all the time.". Nikki and I had been working weekends for a couple of months when I picked her up after school one Friday. She seemed upset."What's wrong?" I asked."My parents shortened my curfew," she said. "I have to be home by nine tonight instead of eleven. And they're threatening to take away my Saturday sleepovers." She gnawed on her lip, waiting for my reaction."Shit!" I said. "Why?" Well ... my marks on my last report card dropped off. They want to see a significant improvement or they're going to cut. He could feel iton his face. His rough pockmarked cheeks were smoothed over with a littlepowder; His stubby eyelashes were covered in mascara. He raised hisfingers again. Yes, it was as he feared; His normally bushy eyebrows werethinner now, plucked and shaped into high, narrow arches.Lyle had no idea how it had happened, but it was clear that he hadundergone some kind of makeover. He checked, with success, that he wasstill wearing all his normal clothes, but it gave him precious littlerelief.. " That's true but I was going to wear this sarong with it." Here ... put on your suit and sarong right now," said Meredith.Slightly puzzled, Kat put on the bikini and tied the sarong around her waist."Now look at yourself in that mirror over there," ordered Meredith.Kat shrugged her shoulders and did as she was asked. "OK, Kat. Tell me what you see." Well, I'm standing here in bikini and sarong. Basically, the sarong's completely see-through. And I've never liked how I looked in this suit.".