"I had no idea..."Alicia laughed. It sounded unpleasant. "They say, 'Ignorance is bliss', you know?"She stared at her daughter in the dim light of the...little wormhole fireball that illuminated them. "But it's not. Ignorance is cruelty. Ignorance is racism and hating someone who's different than you. Ignorance is enslaving half the population because they're females and because you have the power to do it. And killing someone just for the fun of it or because they have something you. I felt some pressure on my rectum and thats when somebody there stuck something up my ass. I wasn't sure what it was but it was warm and while being hard, I think it was someones cock since I had fucked myself once with a dildo my mom had in her dresser that I had found one time. Then, I felt a guy start fucking me and I knew right then that I was getting ass fucked and figured that this was gonna hurt AND take a while since so many guys were there! The guy busted a load in me and then another. (In retrospect, these many years later, I think we were both fooling ourselves, he and I. It was the other way around: he needed her, and I needed him.)I checked the clock—twenty minutes, and I would have to leave. I hated hospitals. Even the prospect of seeing an attractive nurse failed to compensate for the oppressive atmosphere of concentrated misery.As his head dipped, he started and looked up. He too checked the clock and apparently arrived at the same conclusion. Gently lowering her hand. “I’ll call all of them this evening.”“Don’t forget to include yourself as ‘managing director’,” Mary Beth said. “You need to make sure you have a formal role on the board.After we had spoken, and there was general agreement about who should be on the board, I called all of the potential board members, and asked if they would like to be involved. Each of them was very keen to serve and help out, and the next day I got back to Martin with a list of names. He told me that he would start to prepare.