Aweek ago I could never have even thought of such a phrase. My makeup. Butnow I am a woman and the phrase is completely natural. I am having funnow. A...woman has fun with her makeup. Why else would she wear it? To wearmakeup is to be a woman. And to wear makeup is to have fun.My makeup today was to be different from anything else I had wornpreviously. This makeup is not to be what Mother wants me to wear or whatmother wants to humiliate me with. This is not the makeup of a slut or ofa. Gwyneth called to apologize to you. She told me it hadn't worked out between you too, she thought because she's in an emotional mess." Yeah but no problem." Do you wish to try again?" No." Oh. Well I was worried about where you where but Jenna said you were used to coping out in the wilds in foreign countries and it figured civilization would pose no problem for you."Ted said yeah right and told Liz where he was and said to tell Jenna to come when she was ready, that he'd book in for tomorrow. " Well... I know about having to struggle for everything I have, that's for sure. I grew up pretty poor, but now I try to only look ahead and forget about the past." That's the best way to look at things, Jill. I see a lot of potential in both you and Allie... But on a different note, we sure did a job on this pasta, didn't we? We must have been hungry. Are you ready for some dessert?" What!... You got dessert too?" Yeah... I took the liberty of ordering some cheesecake for us." Oh... that was. All eyes were on us as we twirled and performed for every man there. Isoon found our 'husbands', right at the front where I would have been inher place. With the wig and mask on, they had no idea who we were andcheered us on. Rubbing and softly caressing 'connie', I moved to thepole and began to dance around it, holding onto it and wrapping one legaround it, while everyone watched on.I felt empowered and bold, not demeaned or cheap. I never saw strippersor exotic dancers as cheap, everyones got.