"Well, you can't blame him for being nervous," she says, "I'm Betty, by the way, I'm the owner. And you're in the right store. We'll have this guy loo...king like a Playboy model when you walk out of here. What's his name?" Oh... This is Jerry, and I'm Rosy." OK, tell you what, Rosy, why don't you walk around and pick out a couple of dresses you think he'd look good in. He looks like a size 8 or maybe a 10, depending on the dress. I'll measure him for his shoe size." Come over here with me, Jerry,. Not only clothes but shoes, and hats as well. At the very back were a line of shoe boxes, more shoes I thought but I was wrong, for they were filled with letters, photographs and videos.I sat at her dressing table and took the lid off the first of the many boxes; it was full of holiday snaps, many of which I had taken myself. There she was on our honeymoon in that little white bikini that went just a bit transparent when she got it wet. God, she was so lovely and so darned sexy. God, there's. Kayla had finally recognized that her childhood dream hadn’t led her to any castles, and wasn’t about to, She’d done her best to bank as much of the money as she could against the day that she’d try to salvage her education. That plan had been overtaken by events, as it turned out. When life had handed her a completely unexpected reason, her interpretation was that it was the reason that she’d been waiting for. In a complete about-face, she’d gotten out of her slide by sheer force of will,. So, when Elizabeth Malden asked me if I had a couple of minutes, sat me down in a quiet corner of the quad, and said, "Jennifer, the Valkyries would like to recruit you," I was nonplussed, probably even significantly minused. I'm pretty sure my mouth dropped open. I think I turned around at some point to see if she was talking to someone behind me. I may have said, "Gawk." I'm quite certain I shook my head sharply to clear my mind.Her smile broadened and she reached out, taking one of my hands.
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