It includes a short, red, satin baby-doll nightdress, trimmed with lace and with a wide bow at the front, teasingly holding it together. Underneath is... a minuscule matching thong, and I am wearing a deep-red lipstick to complete the look.You go to step towards me, your appreciation for my efforts evident under the towel.“Not so fast,” I say, playfully holding up my hand in a halting gesture. “Before anything else – I’m going to give you that massage I have been promising you for months. Now,. ‘I may not sleep, but I can tell people we slept together,’ she giggles. ‘What time you meeting your lawyer? Making it official – the divorce, I mean?’ ‘Baby, we don’t need to talk about that. Snuggle me.’ ‘Cuddling’s an extra ten bucks an hour,’ you tell her, shifting along the couch. ‘I’m real sorry.’ * New week, new woman. Her name’s Kathleen, but no one ever calls her that – people call her Kay, ‘kay? She laughs at the little pun and takes off her glasses and flutters her lashes. Fine.. It was as a thiefthat I got into a type of trouble I couldn't get out of.I had one firm and fast rule. I wouldn't kill kids. Use to be that noone would kill women, but me, I would take the work, as I figured as longit was adults, one was as good as the other. This was partly the cause ofmy current condition. My last job was to go into a house and to steal abook. I was offered one million dollars- more than any single job where Ididn't have to fence what I took. I lived simply enough that. But you’ve sinned and have to atone. You cannot be an altar boy now for 4 months. Now you go and behave yourself.”Joey walks back to his pew, and his friend Franco slides over and whispers, “What’d you get?”“Four months’ vacation and five good leads...”This morning my son said his ear hurt, and I asked, on the inside or outside. So, he walks out the front door, comes back in and says both. It’s moments like this that gets me wondering if I’m saving too much for college.Jenny’s friend Debbie was.