Puffs of mist escaped their mouths as they breathed, and Froo lent her head back against Misha’s chest, looking up at the clear night sky. ‘Tell m... about Los Angeles, what was it like to grow up there?’ ‘It was fun, my family is enormous and most of my cousins lived down the road, or not far away, so I had lots of fun. We all liked to swim and surf and pretty much grew up as a pack, along with my best friends Robin and John.’ Settling his cheek against her head, he carried on, ‘We lived. It was not disappointment or disillusionment that led Ms. Dawson to think this was a flawed morality. It was an understanding that to be a body, just a body moving in a world of other bodies, was a huge relief, an ultimate freedom. After a few years of experimentation with those fat-bottomed Raleigh girls, Anthony had returned to Williamsburg, to Paige, and to his true roots. If there was anyone who understood the pleasure of being a body, it was Tom. His job seemed to. At the age 28, she WAS the PERFECT CATCH.She was loyal and faithful. Industrious and hardworking as a housewife could be. The perfect American woman. Then HE had come to the neighbourhood.HE was 18 year old. HE was also the paper delivery boy. HE was named Derek Johnson.He was innocent enough, was Derek. Until she saw him walk into Mrs Susanna Murphy's home and then heard Susanna herself screaming in lust and pleasure. Her and her husband's room had a window that had a good view of the Murphy's. You are a smart boy, Billy. The problem was that a ring of that much power attracted the most evil of people. There was a really, really bad one called Nemesis Bane. So, in order to prevent him from getting it, I had to use the ring to make a doorway into this world. When I came here, I took the name of John Smith, and met your Grandmother. I never went back. Ever. And because I left, a terrible curse has fallen upon the land." Is that true, Pappy? You're from there?" Yes. And it is written.