.. seventy occasions." Icalculated. This one was safe, an old standby of mine. 'Impure' couldmean nearly anything, and he would assume I meant whateve... regular boyshad for impure thoughts. Willies going into hoo-hoos..."So that's it then?"?I would see later how I overdid it. But for good measure, just to makesure that ALL of my sins for the week were good and paid for, I tossedin an act that seemed particularly awful, "And I committed.... Imean.... I killed a cat."A long pause. Then, "Why are. ..sorry," Kristy said quickly, trying to avoid the stare of thelittle old lady.The little old lady's face softened and she placed a hand on Kristy'scheck. "My child," she said kindly, "use this ring to right the wrongsthat have been done to you."Kristy, still not believing this was real, asked the question that mostwould in this situation, "And how do I do that?"The little old lady slowly removed her hand from Kristy's face. "Yousimply will it to be," she said matter-of-factly.Kristy rolled her. The later it got the more frantic I became to see her holes. The best opportunity was during another cigarette break outside. Lou was sitting on a stool while the two of us relaxed on the floor. Her bf sat with his back to a huge mirror the length of one wall, me facing him and her to the side in an elevated position. My mind was going at full speed trying to work out how i could get her to turn to face the mirror. I got the equipment out and did a visibly terrible job. Dropping notes and. To see you, of course. Does a mother have to have a reason?”In most lives, it happens maybe once or twice that insanity feels more attractive than keeping your wits about you. In Lucian’s bizarre life there’d been a lot of such moments, but this one still stole the show.His mother’s wish was so absurd, and yet such a travesty of his deepest longings, that he could only respond by laughing, crying and screaming all at once.He grabbed her shoulders again, pushed his face into hers and screamed at.