I'm gonna change my way of living, and that ain't no shock.Why, I'm thinking of changing the way I gotta set my clock.Because nobody loves you, when y...ou're old and gray,There'll be some changes made today.There'll be some changes made. +++ "The Medallion of Zulo"By Ellie Dauber (c) 2002 Marriage can change, and things just get stale.And that's the reason for this crazy tale.When you grow old, you don't last long.You're just here, my buddy, then you're gone.I've loved a gal for many years gone. . sort of okay. But the baby... it's... it's... hungry. It needs... something it can't get!" She looked pleadingly at me. "Please, Frederick! Please? If I'm wrong, I promise you can take away my cards, and I'll never look at them again! Never, ever! Please?" Oh Master, I'm scared!" Dee wailed, and rushed into my arms."Freddy," Brenda continued, "if there's nothing wrong with the baby, and if you took Dee to the hospital, what's the worst that can happen?" I could look like a FOOL!" I told. I could feel tremors of fright. All I could think to do was just be honest. I feared where it would lead but saying nothing or making up something could get me into hot water. So I said, “My family has no history of owning slaves. We had nothing to do with it. So why should my tax money go to pay for something I had nothing to do with.” Then he simply replied, “It’s not fair but it wasn’t fair what happened to us either. Somebody should pay for that. Isn’t paying reparation money better than. The only disagreement we had was about my choices for clothing. Here they appealed to a female employee and she sided with the girls on the clothes. It must be a damn female conspiracy to make men pay twice as much for the same thing! They bought Eddy Bauer shirts, Levi Strauss jeans, sports bras, and several items that cost at lest twice as much as I ever paid for my clothes. We were going to be camping to throw off any trail as well as save as much money as I could.Neither girl had done much.