Entering the small room, they saw Tetsuo sitting at the end of the bed in the girl's room talking to her. She was propped up by pillows in her bed hug...ging a large stuffed bear. A string of origami cranes had been created and now decorated the walls of the room. A small plate of food was pushed to the side of the tray near her bed. Most of it hadn't been touched. It looked as though she had been crying for some time and that Tetsuo had been trying to comfort her.Neither Sarah nor Todd wanted to. She laughed again and then said, "Well, then I have to bring you back outside, just like you are now. I'm sure you must be very popular with your friends right now." You know, they aren't even really my friends," I said without thinking."They aren't? Then who are they?" Just the people who caught me naked in the streets, when I was trying to get home. For some reason, I let them talk me into coming to this place."Now she laughed so hard that she had to sit down. Thinking about what I had said,. Her inner turmoil was close to the surface and he could see that she had been abused, as a girl, by a step-father, mentally abused by her mother, and had spent much of her childhood feeling powerless, out of control of her own life. Her desire for dominance spawned from that upsetting beginning. When he saw her session with a therapist, still fresh in her mind, he saw that she was getting help but her dominant side was definitely her primary personality."Angie, would you like to take a seat? I. She laughed and laughed about the chocolate thing and wickedly wondered if there were chocolate smears on my body parts in the morning. She might have been a religious lady, but she was no innocent.I always invited her to stay for dinner and she always accepted. Within a month, I could see that she was actually starting to put on a little weight, and that made me wonder if she'd been eating regular meals at home. Probably not.When it snowed, I made it a point to shovel and salt her walk and.