Where Art Thou”
by
John Presco
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In my theological novel ‘Where Art Thou?’ I ask why God asks Adam and Eve this question. Why did they become – invisible? I suspect they came to follow another god – who tempted them. This has nothing to do with the birth of SEX SINS, that God forgave when he came to earth as HIS SON? How about God – as the Virgin Mary – that the Protestants came to HATE? This is called ICONOLISM.
There is a giant statue being made of Donald Trump – before he is dead! Most statues of this ilk are made and put in place – after the death of the famous person! Does Dustin Stockton know this? He talks with a fake Southern Hillybilly accent and may have read VP Vance’s fake Hillybilly roots, bio, and is glad that woman officer got fired because she hampered Vance giving Greenland as a gift to his and Trump’s loyal followers? Is Stockton gleeful his beloved Idol is socking it to the Ivy League Colleges – and the University of Oregon? Is he tickled pink his Heto is thinking of closing the
National African American Museum of History and Culture
Has Stockton and his ilk taken a Art Appreciation Class? I get to ask these question because the Tea Party went after my daughter and grandson, and successfully drove a wedge between us. Two Tea Party fanatics obliterated my family history.
Study how the parties got switched, and you will see the bronze monster is a neo-Confederate monument celebrating the truth the South – has risen again! It rose when Trump rose from the body of the Secret Service that surrounded him – after a bullet grazed his skull. With the appearance of that ICONIC moment we have a FULL ZARDOZ MOMENT! For this reason I will design a statue of
THE DAUGHTER OF ZARDOZ
At the High Noon, following the death of Donald J. Trump….a statue of Rena Easton will be wheeled out of its hiding place – and paraded past the White House!. Behind the Goddess of Liberty will ride horseman carrying flags of many nations. This will resemble the funeral march of Otto Von Habsburg. Many will line the stree to see the……Rise of Goddess Worship in the New World!
“It was a turning point in world history,” Stockton said. “Sometimes I sit and reflect on how different the world would have been if the bullet hadn’t hit his ear and had blown his brains out on live TV. It’s important to commemorate these world-changing events. It would have been a full-blown civil war, the complete collapse of society.”
EXTRA! My friend’s cousin and his family got attacked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh2LjtAzewc
WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National African American Museum of History and Culture a few years ago.
“Everyone understood why he had tears in his eyes,” said Sanchez, a former high school history teacher.
Sanchez gathered his students there on a field trip from New York City in a quiet space to reflect on the exhibits on slavery and the Middle Passage. “It was such a powerful experience for all of them,” he said.
The Smithsonian Institution museum opened with much fanfare nine years ago and has been lauded for its mission to share the good and the bad of the Black experience in America, including slavery. Now, it’s also in the sights of President Donald Trump, who called its work part of a “widespread effort to rewrite our nation’s history.”
“Museums in our nation’s capital should be places where individuals go to learn ‒ not to be subjected to ideological indoctrination or divisive narratives that distort our shared history,” Trump said in a recent executive order about parks and museums.
It’s not clear what Trump’s directive will mean for the national African American museum, if anything. But its director, Kevin Young, stepped down April 4, a little more than a week after Trump’s executive order.
The museum, which hosted 1.6 million visitors in 2024, serves as a cornerstone in the preservation of African American history, a number of community leaders and organizations said in its defense.
“From slavery to civil rights to the cultural innovations that continue to shape the world, the museum ensures these stories are not forgotten, denied, or politicized,’’ the National Council of Negro Women said in a statement.
“Anything under the sun is susceptible,” said Vedet Coleman-Robinson, executive director of the Association of African American Museums. “It would be a travesty to not have your culture-specific museums anywhere in the country, but definitely in the (nation’s) capital.”
Jodi HiltonProtesters gather Saturday to demand that Harvard University stands up to the Donald Trump administration.
More than a thousand people gathered on Cambridge Common on Saturday to demand that Harvard stand up to the latest threats coming from the Donald Trump administration. Late last month, the administration threatened to freeze nearly $9 billion in federal grants, part of an attack on elite universities including Princeton and Columbia ostensibly to weed out antisemitism on campus.
City councillor Burhan Azeem, who helped organize the protest, said that the three main sponsors, the American Association of University Professors, the Cambridge City Council and 50501, which has been organizing nationwide protests monthly in all 50 states, came together and organized the event in just a few days. “We are really encouraging Harvard to stand up to Trump” at a moment a decision is imminent, he said.
‘Don Colossus’: why a 15ft bronze Trump statue will tower over Ohio
‘Crypto bros’ have clubbed together for a $400,000 tribute to Donald Trump’s defiance of his assassination attempt — ready in time for his inauguration
Friday January 03 2025, 3.50pm GMT, The Times
On a rainy afternoon in the hills of eastern Ohio, half a dozen bronzesmiths stood and marvelled as a giant was winched to its feet, sparkling in the lights.
It was Donald Trump as they had never seen him before — 15ft tall, one fist punching the air and looking a little slimmer than usual.
The sculptor, Alan Cottrill, said his patrons wanted a Trump without too many folds of skin under his chin. “I had a good turkey neck on him,” he said, but it had to go.
Bronzesmiths, left to right: Brent Cottrill, Alan Cottrill, Charles Leasure, Dan Minosky and Josh Becker
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The clients were also insistent that the sculpture should look as if it were made of gold.
Cottrill, 72, is a prolific sculptor who has made bronze statues of 16 past presidents, casting them at the foundry he and his friend Charlie Leasure built on a hilltop at Leasure’s hay farm. His bronze of Thomas Edison stands in National Statuary Hall in the US Capitol building.
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Usually, the statues are lifesize, although Cottrill has produced a couple of “ten-footers”, of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
The statue of Thomas Edison, holding a lightbulb, in Statuary Hall
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Then, in August, he got a call from a sculptor in Las Vegas. The caller said: “Hey, do you want to do a 15ft Trump statue?”
“I said: ‘Yeah.’ He said: ‘Well, I’ve got a group of cryptocurrency guys from Canada — or at least the main guy is from Canada. I’ll get him on the phone.’ This was a Saturday night. Within an hour, about ten phone calls back and forth, we agreed on a price and a schedule.”
One of these cryptocurrency patrons said the group was mostly from the United States. Their giant bronze Trump, for which they paid about $400,000, is to be unveiled before his inauguration in Washington on January 20.
Dustin Stockton said the assassination attempt was potentially a “world-changing event”
Another member of the group, Dustin Stockton, in Florida, described the buyers as “a crew of crypto bros” who got together after the attempted assassination last year of Trump, in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“It was a turning point in world history,” Stockton said. “Sometimes I sit and reflect on how different the world would have been if the bullet hadn’t hit his ear and had blown his brains out on live TV. It’s important to commemorate these world-changing events. It would have been a full-blown civil war, the complete collapse of society.”
Stockton, 43, used to play poker for a living. He got into politics as part of the Tea Party movement and worked for the 2012 presidential campaign of Newt Gingrich and then for Steve Bannon, the Trump aide and strategist.
He led a fundraising campaign for Trump’s proposed border wall that raised $25 million and later prompted a federal investigation that led to fraud and money laundering charges against Bannon and several others — Bannon was pardoned by Trump but still faces state charges.
Stockton said he was never charged, but found himself barred from holding a bank account. “There was no due process,” he said. “For me, crypto became a matter of survival.”
Trump’s defiance after the bullet grazed his ear
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Trump, who once derided cryptocurrency as a scam, has voiced steadily greater support for it. Stockton said the crypto bros wanted a statue of Trump rising to his feet after the hail of bullets and raising a clenched fist. The idea was to capture “one of the most iconic moments and to show our appreciation of his embrace of crypto”, he said.
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All agreed that “if we are going to do this, we had to make it Trumpian,” Stockton said. “We couldn’t do lifesize.”
He wanted a latter-day Colossus of Rhodes, a Trumpian version of the figure that guarded a harbour and became one of the wonders of the ancient world. “I have been calling the statue The Don Colossus,” he said.
The Colossus of Rhodes, engraved by Alain Manesson Mallet (1719), and the Trumpian version, below
ALAMY
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It was equally obvious, to Stockton, that “we couldn’t do it in aluminium”. Ideally they would have used gold, but “gold is too soft a metal to do that large,” he said. “Bronze was the only thing that made sense and Alan was the only artist that made sense. We had to go with someone who already had the Edison statue in Statuary Hall. Someone who had the chops, the gravitas.”
Cottrill is an army veteran who founded an international pizza chain. Then, at the age of 38, he was knocked from his motorbike by a drunk driver. “The police chief found him on his back, holding his leg on,” said his son Brent, 42. “He said: ‘That’s the toughest son of a bitch he’s ever met.’”
Cottrill, 72, in his foundry
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Cottrill recalls that when he awoke in hospital and was told that he was going to live, “I turned to his mother,” he said, nodding towards Brent, “and I said: ‘All I want to do is sculpt.’”
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Leaving her in charge of the pizza chain, he went to New York and began sculpting from nine in the morning until ten at night, enrolling in two art schools and studying anatomy among the cadavers at the Columbia Medical Center. Then he moved back to Zanesville, buying a large brick building that once housed a local newspaper.
It is now his studio and gallery, filled with hundreds of sculptures, including a pair of elaborate bronze tombs that he has made for himself and his wife, decorated with inspirational quotes from Cottrill and from Shakespeare, and lined with the faces of their six children. The gallery is Zanesville’s top tourist attraction, according to Tripadvisor.
There, in August, Cottrill set to work on a lifesize model of Trump, building a tubular steel structure on to which he added Styrofoam and then clay. At the time, he did not think Trump would win the election and he thought it best to get as much of the statue done as possible. “I thought: ‘He’s going to lose and you guys are going to squelch on the last bit of money,” he said.
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To save time, he used a real belt for Trump’s trousers and buttons for his shirt and on the clay figure’s feet, a pair of leather shoes, acquired from a charity shop. A US flag pin rides the lapel of the clay president’s suit.
“I had him looking more like he does today,” said Cottrill. His patrons suggested a few alterations, that he “ought to take a little bit of that off the neck and maybe his cheeks need to be just a little bit smaller,” he said. With living subjects, “almost always I get that,” he said. “If it’s a woman, forget about it. She always comes out 30 or 40 pounds lighter.”
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Stockton acknowledged that the crypto bros had asked for adjustments. “We definitely wanted to make Trump look good,” he said. “Take off a few pounds, add a few bulges in the right places.”
This clay model of Trump, as slim and square-jawed as John Wayne, was placed before a 3D scanner. The images were sent to a factory in Detroit, which produced large plates of a waxy composite that together made up the shell of a figure 15ft high. These were delivered to the foundry at Leasure’s hay farm. There they were dipped in ceramic. The wax was melted out, bronze was poured into the ceramic moulds, and on November 1, out came the first of 52 pieces of the giant bronze Trump.
The giant statue was assembled from its feet upwards
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The colossus was assembled from its feet upwards and then laid horizontal as it got larger so that the welders could work on the chest and back and the raised arm, until it looked as if Trump was lying in bed. The clenched fist might have been reaching to pull the cord of a nightlight.
Last Thursday, the bronze workers welded on the head. Then the giant Trump lay in the foundry shed, like Ozymandias in the sand, “the wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command” all directed towards the concrete floor. To mangle Percy Bysshe Shelley: Look upon him, you liberals, and despair.
On Monday afternoon, a crane hook attached to a sturdy bracket the workers had welded on to the back, between the giant’s shoulder plates, and the enormous Trump was lifted to its feet. “It’s hard to get a realisation of how big it is until it is stood up,” said Dan Minosky, 38, one of the bronze workers. “Once it got stood up, it towers.”
Minosky and the other workers lent against work benches, gazing up at it. Rain hammered the tin roof. A calico cat crept across the foundry behind the legs of the giant Trump.
The foundry workers polished and buffed the statue, to make it shine
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Donald Mason, the mayor of Zanesville, came by to see it too. He is a Donald, and a Republican political leader. Did he ever imagine a statue of himself? “Well,” he said, staring up at the giant Trump. “I hope not for a while because I want to stay alive.”
Usually, Cottrill applies chemicals to the bronze to give it a dark patina. “I like the traditional look,” he said. “But this, it’s got to be gold.”
So the foundry workers began polishing and buffing the giant Trump, to make it shine. “I sanded his legs, over and over and over,” said Cottrill’s son Brent. Dark greenish dust from the bronze Trump coated his forehead and cheeks. He brushed a hand through a smooth, glowing valley in one of Trump’s trouser legs, near his shin. “This is what you want, right here,” he said.
The statue weighs 2,000lb and has a steel frame inside
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Higher up, above the crotch, the bronze was still dull and mottled but there were bright lines across the chest where the welding seams between the plates had been ground down and buffed smooth. Tap with your knuckles on a thigh and the giant Trump rings like a gong.
It weighs 2,000lb. Leasure, 72, the foundry owner and hay farmer, said the statue had a steel frame inside it that would lock into two plates, at the feet, with pipes beneath them to root it into a concrete plate. The plate is being made by a builder who is one of his neighbours.
“Remember when Saddam Hussein had his statue pulled over and it broke off at his knees?” he said. “This one won’t break off at the knee.”
Saddam Hussein’s statue broke at the knee when toppled
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The Trump statue is too large to be transported upright, so it will be laid down on a 30ft trailer to be towed to Washington. One of the crypto bros had noted that if the statue was rotated onto its side, with its raised fist, it would look rather like Superman in flight, Stockton said.
He is not yet sure where it will stand at the inauguration. “I have been speaking with members of the inaugural committee and their staff for the last several weeks,” he said. “I get the sense that President Trump is personally involved … We have joked about making sure it is in shot when President Biden departs on Marine Force One.”
He is not worried about suggestions that a giant statue for a still-living president might look like the artefact of a dictator. “I have long referred to Donald Trump as the greatest internet troll of all time,” he said. “It’s part of why he’s always been so entertaining. We actually look forward to the horror and the negative reactions.”
After the inauguration, Stockton said the statue would embark on what he is calling “The Victory Tour”, a two-year journey across America. “I think I’m going to be driving [the truck],” he said. Then he hopes to find a permanent place for it. “My personal hope is that it will be part of the Trump presidential library at some point, five or six years from now.”
And then, it could survive millennia, Cottrill said. “Have you ever seen the Bronzes of Riace?” he asked, referring to two bronze warriors cast in about 450 BC. “They were dredged up from the Mediterranean Sea.” They still look fabulous.
The Riace bronzes survived being underwater for more than 2,000 years
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The bronze Donald “may be dug up, 5,000 years from now, and people will say: ‘Oh! That’s that guy who, back in the 21st century, had a huge impact on the democratic experiment that was the United States of America,” he said. “I’m not saying for good or bad,” he added, carefully.
He is satisfied with the work. “This piece gave me the opportunity to invoke a sense of strength and power and defiance,” he said, gazing up at the shiny colossus he had wrought. “That’s what they wanted projected, that’s what I strove to do. And I think it’s successful, any personal feelings aside.”
Another of his statues, a far smaller figure, stood on a nearby trolley. It was Scipio Smith, a freed slave who founded a tinsmith shop and a church. “Those are the statues I love to do,” he said. “Somebody who picked himself up from nothing and made something of himself.”
He turned, theatrically, and glanced up at the golden Trump. “What?” he exclaimed, when everyone laughed. “I didn’t say anything!”
The Great Switch: How the Republican & Democratic Parties Flipped Ideologies
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The Democratic and Republican Parties have not always had the same ideals that they have today. In fact, America’s two dominant political parties have essentially flipped ideologies in the time since they were founded.
The Democratic Party was founded in 1828 while the Republican Party dates back to 1854.
In its early years, the Republican Party was considered quite liberal, while the Democrats were known for staunch conservatism. This is the exact opposite of how each party would be described today.
This change did not happen overnight, however. Instead, it was a slow set of changes and policies that caused the great switch.
Ideologies of the Past
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Republicans controlled the majority of northern states. The party sought to expand the United States, encouraged settlement of the west, and helped to fund the transcontinental railroad and state universities. Additionally, because of growing tension over slavery, many Republicans became abolitionists who argued against slavery.
Democrats represented a range of views but shared a commitment to Thomas Jefferson’s concept of an agrarian (farming) society. They viewed the central government as the enemy of individual liberty. Because most Democrats were in southern states, they fought to keep slavery legal.
Post-Civil War Policy
As the war came to a close, the Republican Party controlled the government and used its power to protect formerly enslaved people and guarantee them civil rights. This included the three Reconstruction Amendments, which won Republicans the loyalty (and vote) of America’s Black population. Unsurprisingly, most Democrats disapproved of these measures.
However, a change had begun in the Republican Party following the Civil War. Northern industrialists had grown rich from the war, and many entered politics afterwards.
These new wealthy politicians did not see much sense in supporting the rights of Black Americans when the nation was still largely white. By the 1870s, many in the Republican Party felt that they had done enough for Black citizens and stopped all efforts to reform the southern states.
The south was left to the white Democrats and their oppressive policies towards Black citizens after the Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction. With the end of Reconstruction, the “Solid South” voted for Democratic presidential candidates for the next 44 years.
A New Century
Almost 60 years later, the Great Depression became a catalyst for a massive political shake up. The Republican Party had continued to be dominated by wealthy businessmen, which meant that they had come to favor laissez-faire policies that supported big business.
These policies were effective when the economy was booming, but were disastrous when it wasn’t.
When the economy crashed in 1929, the Republican president, Herbert Hoover, opted not to intervene, earning him and his party the ire of the American public. Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, sensed the need for change.
He campaigned on a promise of government intervention, financial assistance, and concern for the welfare of the people. He won the 1932 election by a landslide. It was FDR’s campaign policies that caused a major shift in party ideologies.
Republicans opposed everything about FDR’s government. Primarily, they saw the growth of large government as harmful to the federalist foundation of the nation. This too has come to define the ideals of the Republican Party.
The Civil Rights Movement
Race and equality began to return to the center of politics in the 1950s and 1960s. Race did not necessarily fall into a party viewpoint at this point; instead, it was more of a regional issue. Southern Democrats and Republicans both opposed the early Civil Rights Movement, while Northern Democrats and Republicans began to support legislation as the movement picked up steam.
In 1964, Democratic president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. In the 1964 election, Republican candidate Barry Goldwater publicly opposed the new law, arguing that it expanded the power of the federal government to a dangerous level.
It was this argument that led to a final, decisive switch. Black voters, who had historically been loyal to the Republican Party because of the 1866 Civil Rights Act, had already been switching to the Democratic Party.
However, upon hearing Goldwater’s argument against the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the majority of Black voters left the Republican Party in favor of the Democrats. They saw the Democratic Party as advocates for equality and justice, while the Republicans were too concerned with keeping the status quo in America.
As the 60s and 70s continued, Democrats sought reform in other places, such as abortion and school prayer. White southern Democrats began to resent how much the Democratic Party was intervening into the rights of the people.
By the 1980s, white southern Democrats had become Republicans, and the majority of the south was now Republican. The Republican Party now is solidly conservative while the Democratic Party is the liberal one.
Daughter of ZARDOZ
Posted on January 21, 2025 by Royal Rosamond Press
Daughter of ZARDOZ
A movie, play, or musical
by John Presco
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Zeena ZARDOZ was sucked into the glass pyramid, and spit out of the brazen mouth of Wayne Morse into Freedom Square! She screeched as wild Hippie Dancers came at her in a swirl. She pointed her gun at all of them. Hedin of SLEEPS jiggled his way to her, gently took her gun, and said to the women;
“Give her some of your threads and get her out of her killer clothes! Come! Let’s dance!
A half hour later, Gay Pride marchere showed up, Then, her come the armed Three Perenters!
To be continued.
Praise Be To Zardoz!
Posted on August 12, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
Zardoz came to the Wayne Morse Free Speech Square. I saluted a fellow Wizard of Oz.
Come back………when you know something!
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Mazarati Rena & Superbowl
Posted on February 3, 2014 by Royal Rosamond Press
I just watched the first Superbowl commercial and it was about a black boy and a Mazarati. I offer my Muse the Rosamond Brand, and she calls the cops on me because she couldn’t wait to prove to me and my readers how loyal she is to her Red-neck. That was a $20,000,000 dollar commercial. What do these guys got? Is this how they are going to save the white race – by being stupid?
It looks like they love the racist destiny the NPI has mapped out for them that is going nowhere, but to the same hell all those beautiful German boys went to when they fell in love with Adolph Hitler.
In this prophetic post, I accept the truth Rena does not want to live with this poor hippie on a hill – for fifteen years. But, if I was a Red-neck, and stupid as a box of hammers, then this Super Woman will kill for you, throw folks in jail for you, invade Russia for you.
“besides, she had already parked herself in a little tent atop a mount overlooking the town of Monte Rio – for forty five fucking days with a hippie who was not going anywhere in life, because wanting to be someone, is not cool.”
I was watching a car commercial and saw a Rena look-alike in it. ‘The Italians are coming’ is out of this post I made over two years ago.
Maserati Sunset
Rena and I sat on our hillside watching the western sky turn into a rainbow, and then beheld the first stars appear in the thalo blue richness of the sky. This was to be our last night on our mountain before we descend to the land of mortals below.
I sat above her, and thus she used my legs and knees like a thrown, a leather bucket seat, her beautiful arms resting on me as I caressed her shoulders. A warm wind came up through the pines and oaks, and the strong smell of dry golden
grass was like a perfume that still lingers. This aroma is my solace, at knowing what she had in store, for herself, just herself.
This beautiful Midwest girl was born in the body of Ferrari, a Mazarati, in a little town in Nebraska, and for seventeen years she lived like a old crone in the home of her dear Grandmother. My God, she was in a walker at seven!
“Oh, Rena, do be careful! Watch out for those garden pebbles, They can trip you up! Now, let’s go watch the backward sprinkler till it gets dark.”
Before I came into her life, her plan was to take that beautiful Mazrati body to college – and conquer Lincoln – for starters!
Look out Lincoln, here come Rena Ferrari Maserati, Italian film goddess! Look for her to burn some rubber down your street on her way to the campus where there are a hundred good looking men in great bodies, they out of their mother’s
home, too, and there is no one to stop them, all that healthy stuff, the years they played on the swings and jungle gyms, coming down to this – College Mating Time!
If I was born in her body, there would be no way you could talk me into parking my Mazarati in that old barn in back of the Monastery, then go into the field and besides, she had already parked herself in a little tent atop a mount overlooking the town of Monte Rio – for forty five fucking days with a hippie who was not going anywhere in life, because wanting to be someone, is not cool.pick potatoes and radishes for the communal stew. No way! I mean, my God,
you’re a godly sex machine, the sexist car alive, and………
O.K. This is/was true! But Rena didn’t have to be anybody either, because she was so fucking beautiful. It just – grew on her!
Rena wanted to have a few more lovers, that will fine tune her cylinders, her moves, her love making technique, before she takes it out on the autobahn – and really opens up!
I was already in her dust, and, was trying to be fair, make it easier on both of us, by telling her;
“I would do the same thing, if I were you!”
“You would! “Oh thank you! Thank you for releasing me, and approving of everything I want to do!”
I love Rena like my own daughter. She never knew her father.
Of course I made this conversation up, because, when I pointed out the planet Pluto to her, I slapped an invisible ball and chain on her ankle while she was distracted.
“Where’s Pluto?”
“See that tiny little star at the very tip of that pine tree!
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