It was Lillie. "Aunt Alexis, I just want to tell you how much fun I had yesterday. I have decided that I will be buying my own humidor and cigars tod...y. My Mom just agreed to go in half with me, which I absolutely can't believe. She looks happier today than I've seen her in ages." I smiled, knowingly. "I will need your advice about what kinds of cigars to buy. Do you have any recommendations?" Jason returned with my coffee and I instructed him to go in the house and begin his chores. . "I've enjoyed playing thisgame - don't get me wrong - it's great! But there is a limit andyou would do well to remember that. You can tell me I'm runningout of lives till you're blue in the face but one word from meand you're out on the street, not even cleaning for a livinganymore and you'll be running back to your husband quick enough.How long do you think it'll be before you're putting on thepounds again without me to encourage you? Before six months isup you'll be as fat as-" You?" She. I swear that if there had been ten more, he could have used themall. Had I been in boy mode and witnessed this I would have beendespondent over such a spectacle, but as Kira I reveled in mysoreness. Paul was the proprietor of the Egyptian exhibit thatwas traveling the country and leaving that day, but promised tolook me up the next time he was in town. I kissed him goodbyeand as I watched Paul got in his rental car and drive out of mylife. At that moment I think I loved him.Sindi was all over. ”I had to snort with laughter. The odds of those sort of criminal charges sticking were remote and frankly laughable, and she knew it ... and I told her so. “I’ll take those odds, because those charges are all meaningless. You may know a friendly DA or two and have entire rolodexes’ with the phone numbers of eager federal agents and attorneys, but I must frankly tell you that your chances of making any kind of successful state or federal case against me are even now at best, three thousand.