“Well, let’s start with a special moisturizing bath. Your rough skin needs a good soaking in special oils to smooth it out, before we continue with delicate electronic body art. We’ll follow with aromatic oils, splash some powder and various rouges to cover imperfections nature gave you. After we finish with that, then we must do something about your mannerisms and the way you walk.” Physical transformation included removing Eden’s Cove handmade necklaces that betrayed my primitive identity. To shed my northwestern wilderness and apply a thin surface layer of civilization required money. It was not that I could not spare the money, but my father and especially Misty and Jason would never approve.
When I informed them that I did not want professionals to transform me to the degree that Red
