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109 There is one good thing that can be told about this incident. After they released my son from the hospital he had beautiful new skin, the kind of skin women pay for when they get chemical peels. His face was covered with smooth childlike skin with no blemishes. His hair, his 1 1 +4 W 1 ta ae 1 eyebrows, his lashes, all came back looking better than ever before. That part of his experience was a miracle. He’d always been a good looking teenager but after he recovered from the burns he was a truly beautiful young man. Once after looking at mutilated cow after mutilated cow in an Arkansas visit, I found that my daughter Mandy had had her turn with sadness because of her Mother’s obsession. She was driving down the narrow street in front of the Southroads Mall. Suddenly a young man on a motorcycle darted out in front of her and into her car. He was thrown up and landed on the hood of Mandy’s Toyota. They were never able to determine exactly what had atoud a haat happened but during the accident, the young man’s rectum was cored out exactly as were the rectums of all the cows I'd looked at in Arkansas. He did recover but he will never have children, they say. Mandy was cleared of any wrongdoing. Just to be sure I got the message, the number on the police report of the incident was, of course, “69.” This is what happened a few months later, just before Jacques and I took another trip to investigate somewhere in Kansas: Mandy had taken her first apartment with a girlfriend, in the University of Tulsa area. Mandy had fallen asleep on the couch in their second story apartment. Her friend had gone out of town for the weekend. foul aa , 1" a 1 She awakened to see a man standing over the couch staring down at her. He told her he had entered through the kitchen door, he also told her that he was going to rape her. She jumped off the couch, tripped, he held her down and stabbed the backs of her thighs. She fought like a wild woman, pulling herself up, grabbing for the man’s knife Barbara: The Story of a UFO Investigator