That issomething he knew she would not ever let him spend his money on again.Tom sat back down in front of the desk with the three receipts from hisfe... excursions to the grocery store that week. He had been reallycareful with his money and knew that Princess Dee would be proud of theeffort he had taken into reducing his spending. "Only those receiptsslave?" Princess Dee asked. She had already logged into Tom's Mintaccount through his computer that day when he was at work and knew thathe was not. Who knew our lives weregoing to take a drastic turn soon.During the second year of our marriage, after year of rapid growth theIndian economy started taking a downturn. Automatically, the IT companiesstarted to lay off people. The new recruits were the first to be cutoff. I was let go and was forced to look for a new one. But jobs werehard to come by. It had been three months since I was laid off butnothing had materialized. Our savings were quickly vanishing and I badlyneeded a source of. The portion of the house above him was intact, or at least the first floor was still in place. The other half had collapsed completely, filling the cellar below it with a mound of rotting wood that ramped up over the sides of the foundation.Arthur raised him higher and he could feel rough wood scraping against the back of his hand and wrist. Tom knew he should be distressed over his predicament, but he couldn't even summon enough curiosity to look up. Arthur held Tom in place with one hand. They were not able to act that way now and were deeply ashamed of themselves. All our men, both the transformed and the others, took a heavy emotional beating and we had no clue where it was leading. Then something ghastly happened. Lionel Olson, one of the first two transformees, had been lodged with Halder in a hut of their own. Olson never became rational and, a couple days after leaving the infirmary, she opened one of her own arteries with a utility knife and bled to death before we.