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Most of the contents of these letters concerns Elizabeth's attempt to get pregnant.


Her husband, Ben, simply can't get the job done. Perhaps his p_nis is too small, or perhaps he simply has bad aim. It is never explained. So Elizabeth and Ben go to a lab. The scientists there have Ben stare at videos of nude women who look far sexier than Elizabeth, and have him beat off into a test tube. At the same time they take an ice cream scooper and scoop out some of Elizabeth's eggs, and mix them up with Ben's masturbation extract. Then some time later they got Elizabeth nude and strapped her down to a table like Frankenstein, spread her legs, and squirt some baby into her.


But Elizabeth keeps killing one baby after another. It's like her v_gina has teeth and eats every baby alive as it is put into her. Elizabeth's v_gina becomes a baby incinerator, killing baby after baby that is put into her.

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Anyway, so we get hundreds of pages of Elizabeth whining about why she can't have a baby. I would think by page 300 she might have figured out an answer--use another woman's body rather than her own killer vaj. But that never occurs to her. This is the "B" plot; I hope you like it.


Meanwhile Alice learns about a mysterious person named "Gina". Alice learns that Gina was an important part of her life, but no one will tell her about Gina.


Alice gets a mysterious message from Dominick, Madison's principal, saying he wishes they can "do it again" soon. The implication is that he has been boning her, and if you erase the second, third, fourth, and fifth letters of Dominick's name, and see what remains, you can see why. This is odd to Alice because according to her memory, she is happily married to Nick and has no desire to have other men squirting inside her. She must have a huge sex drive if she is spreading her legs for another guy even before she is fully divorced from Nick.


Alice asks her family members, her mother, her grandmother, and Elizabeth, why she would want to divorce Nick. All they would tell her is that he worked long hours away from home and wasn't around much. But Alice knew that there was more to the story than that!


Those are the main elements of this story--why is Alice divorcing Nick, and who was Gina? Alice asks everyone around her these very simple questions, and no one will answer.


INSTEAD, WE GET NEARLY 400 PAGES OF LITERARY COCK TEASING, such as


* when Elizabeth says "I've been thinking about Gina" without telling us what she was thinking about,


*Alice is told she "can never forgive Nick", but is never told for what,


* Alice is told that her divorce from Nick "came down to one thing", but the guy who told her that wouldn't tell her what the one thing was,


* Alice is told that she needs to get "it" off Gina, without any further explanation.

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