My first story about Ri�tte's childhood is all about blood. She used to pull her own teeth the minute they felt loose in the slightest by tying one end of a string to the tooth, and the other end to a door. The door she would then slam, and the blood would be like ALL OVER. One day mum asked in despair why she couldn't just wait for them to come out by themselves when they were ready, and she said she had to give the mouse as many of her teeth as she could, otherwise it wouldn't be able to build itself a house before winter came.

Ree-head, you were a strange bird. I'm so glad you've grown out of that!

More like a strange little monster, I suspect! And I'm not sure how far I've grown out of it either....

Neither do I. Another one of her peculiar habits was folding her toes in under her feet, and walking on her toe knuckles. That had us cringing!

Now, *that's* cool!

How do you remember all these things about her, Sonja? I don't remember any of them. It's like I'm hearing about them for the first time or something.

Thank you Terry (she says modestly)! Bad Jim! You were just too busy staring at the neighbouring lady having a tan in her skimpy underwear to notice our tricks, weren't you?

It's just that Sonja was over there alot and that's who I was noticing. But I am bad to the bone because Sonja would ask me alot whether I wanted to ever meet her sister, and I would just say "no", cuz I didn't want Sonja to get jealous over the fact that you and I were doing things together that I'm kinda glad Sonja doesn't remember anymore. The neighboring lady told me I was bad, too. Am I? Am I pretty horrible? Bad to the bone.

B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-bad.

Naugh-ty Naugh-ty Naugh-ty Jim!

How shall we punish him?

We bring him face to face with Raquel Maldonado, and tie him to a tree (head and hands and feet) inches away from her heaving bosom!

yep, that would be good punishment!

Excuse me gently, but on each of her noble bosoms was a tv monitor. I just sat there, y'know, and watched what was on. A show I'd never seen before. Looked a little like a rough cut....yeah, maybe not the final version. But since it was on both monitors, I saw it in stereo. Who but who were the two hosts of this show? Why a certain Riette and certainly a somewhat off-camera Sonja. And it was the first look I've had at where Riette lives. Sure did see alot of her studio. I dunno, y'all want me to play it back for ya? Raquel, if they say yes, could you hit the rewind button? Right, and then the play button? Oh, oh, you wanna play with that instead....