We agreed it would be too good anopportunity to miss. We wouldn't ever be able to afford to attract thesecompetitors to be in the show, but I could at...least see what the best ofthe best. Something had changed in Alex since I told her about the deal I had madewith Kritsada. She had become distant and distracted and I hoped that agood night's sleep would improve her mood. It had been a long day forme, and the effects of the flight to Bangkok together with theactivities at Cockatoo had caught up. " Yeah," I responded, "if your wife found out, you would die." Kim doesn't have a problem with me looking. I'm just not allowed to touch," he explained.I glanced at Sean to see his reaction to this teasing. I can't say that I was surprised to see that he was smiling and waiting to see how it went. I could tell that he was routing for Mark."You want me to do this, don't you?" I asked him.He shrugged."No baby," I said. "That isn't an answer. We have been married less than six months. I don't want. He made his way through the barracks and called everybody together. There were now thirty-six of them with the addition of four of the new Celestialites."Okay, gather round everybody. We need to make this quick before the squad leaders come back," said Simon.His words grabbed everybody's attention. It sounded as if something good was in the offing if the squad leaders were being excluded."Some of us got to talking earlier and the other three groups should be having a meeting just like this one. But to be one of them, I had to comply with their membership rules, it’s their rules, not God’s, so why should the church insist on it?’ ‘My wife was firmly entrenched in Pentecostal ideology, thoroughly brainwashed by Pentecostal ideology, and if we ever had a religious discussion and I didn’t agree with what she had been taught, we would end up arguing, and if I was able to prove to her, scripturally, that I was right, she would just tell me to take it up with ‘leadership’, knowing full well.