They wanted to buy some of the little glass figurines and I let them figuring that even if they got broken; they still would have a remembrance of the...day.When we parted from Sophia at the Plaza dock, I pressed a small envelope into her hands with a nice stack of new folding money for her to play with. I told her it was a debt I owed to her mother and she had told me to just give it to her daughter for school expenses. I hoped she spent it sensibly and not invest it all on tapes of punk rock. But before even 30 seconds could pass, a damp naked man toweling off his hair came ambling into the row of lockers where I had staked my claim and hoped for some space and peace. He was a regular, a young babe I had admired at the gym for some time. He seemed to be of college age, was about 6 feet tall, weighed around 180 or 190 pounds, and had bright blue eyes and longish dirty-blonde hair. He was what I liked to call a "specimen" -- in other words, a specimen of the perfect man. His handsome. ###### When Christie awoke it was dusk. Dim light filtered through cracks in the curtains, and the room was in shadows. She rose to use the bathroom, wash her face, and brush her teeth. First grabbing a robe to ward off the springtime chill in the house, she went back to sit on the edge of the bed. She was calm enough now to sit and watch a movie, something distracting with men in spandex blowing things up. She had ‘The Dark Knight’ and the Spiderman movie with Toby McGuire in the bedroom, so. Twoguards stood on duty. "All right, we'll take her from here," said theman behind the desk. The soldier who had escorted Irinaturned around and departed. "Savitsky, was it?" the man behind the desk said. He soundedsurprisingly polite for a prison officer. "Listen up. We?re going toremove your handcuffs; once you are released, you?re going to remove all ofyour clothing and jewelry and place them on the floor in front of you.? At that point, you?ll be searched for anyweapons or contraband.".