She read it again. 'The symbol is Kordafan and means that the woman is a temple whore and the possession of the high priest,' she read. “May I read...it,” Stew asked meekly. “Sure, go ahead,” Sherri said, pushing the book to him. She knew the meaning would send him over the edge. She watched as Stew carefully read it, glancing up occasionally to compare the symbol with the tattoo on her buttocks. His lips were moving as he read. “Oh my god, Sherri! You have been tattooed as a prostitute!”. We were pretty well off, Dad had left Mother a pile of money,and she had a good telecommuting job, so she was at homealmost all the time to make sure I "stayed in character". Sheused her approval as the carrot and disapproval as the stick,and because I really did love my mother, I tried to pleaseher.About this time, Mother also starting giving me "vitamins"to take every day. I started feeling a bit queasy from them,so I learned to fake swallowing the things most of the time. Icouldn't always. It was a good decision for me, and I plan to stick to it, but it's not a requirement of my religion, it's my own idea."Glad to hear you say it," Mary said."They also told me they'd set me up last summer with that trip to Sweden. They knew Aunt Karin would teach me some reality, talk some sense to me where they couldn't. I had a long talk with her by telephone after that. It was great. We went over a whole lot of other stuff, and I really came out of it a lot smarter, got a really good look at. It had purposely stayed away from the people, hoping not to duplicate the problem that happened in Roswell, New Mexico in the late 1940’s, early 1950’s. While the spacecraft could be made invisible the majority of time, it was subject to intermittent breakdowns in the field around it that allowed it to be seen or tracked. Most times people that saw it or felt its presence would not report it, afraid of being called a lunatic or just plain not believing it themselves. While the alien did.