Then I spoke to my mother about the next week."I know you're scared but I also know when it's over you will never have felt better in your life. Rache.... Dear Rachel. You and Pat have known each other all your lives. You've told people that you were together since you were three and four. Has Pat ever hurt you? Have you hurt him?" I shook my head. "Do you know this Japanese story?"A young man of Matsue was returning home from a wedding party when he saw, just in front of his house, a firefly. He. Only three got out . Most were too drunk to even get out of bed. I decided I needed a bit of intel. Our last little soiree yielded a couple of Blue Hat uniforms. The only one that would fit me was a Sergeants uniform. I chukled this should give me a bit more moving room. I bypassed the out posts and entered the area from the South.No-one seemed to question my right to be there. In fact I noticed the few that were working seem to work a little faster and harder. I stood and watched for awhile. "Mother painted my lips and fingernails a matching shade of red -- and she added mascara, eye shadow, and rouge. Then it was time for a necklace and some sexy clip-on earrings. She made me look in the mirror and I hardly recognized myself. Except for my hair, I looked like the kind of pretty, made-up girl you see in pre-teen beauty pageants.Then mother drew me to her large perfumed bosom. "Oh darling," she said, "you look so pretty. You've got such a sweet, girlish mouth. You should have been a. " First? Big secret?" Courtney asked with a smile."Uhmmm, might be a little bit of one," Jill responded with an unfathomable look on her face.Courtney glanced at Bridget who smiled back. "Okay, you have our attention. So, what's going on?"Kathy handed Courtney the picture Hope had just drawn of Eileen. "Hope drew this from my memory of a woman Bill and I briefly met in Saint Louis."Bridget leaned over to get closer as she and Courtney checked out the picture."Wow, she has a beautiful face,".