What a fucking set of tits!' He tried to smile at Nena as sincerely as he could when she looked back up at him.Nena looked at all three of them and at... the rest of the group. She looked downm kicking an imaginary rock away from her. "Well, okay apology accepted." She smiled at them shyly and dropped her head again, crossing her arms across her chest protectively.Mark and Doug quickly paid the bar bill and ushered everyone outside, "We're all staying at the Laredo Inn. Have you been there?" Doug. ” My smile dimmed a bit and I prepared to wish him a good night.But he interrupted my unspoken thought. “I heard you say that you were coming here to eat. So, after my shift ended I decided to come over here and wait for you to come out.” He finished and waited for me to process, still confident, still relaxed, and still acting like it was the most natural thing in the world for us to be having this conversation.I was a little stunned. Okay, a lot stunned. And I processed everything from. Alexandra shifted uncomfortably and said to her younger self: “Are you sure you want to do this, Alex?”Younger-Alex smiled and placed her thumb and forefinger on Alexandra’s bare lips and gently spread them apart. “I’m not sure of anything, right now, but this is what I’ve fantasized about the last 2 weeks.”Alex sat propped against her pillows, legs widespread, with Younger-Alex laying between them. Alex was 16 years old, Younger-Alex 18 days past her 14th birthday. It was their 3rd time. After all, as Carmen and several others pointed out to me, they had suffered as well at Winslow’s hands.To my pleasant surprise, the community accorded the names spoken by Carmen and Gus the same respect that had been accorded the names spoken before by the rest of the community. In a manner it made me proud of my people and what I had accomplished. It didn’t take long as their list of names was relatively short. Then we were done.Thank God and the spirits for the feast and the party that.