Where was I ahh yes: King Jimmy. I know I've promised to bring to you the origins of the patients at this facility however in order to understand Kendra one needs to know King Jimmie and the practises he employs in turning young girls out, young girls who inevitably and without doubt end up in similar situations such as kendra's. Kendra was by all accounts a headturner, a rubbernecker in short... a knockout. She developed early and was the envy of every girl in her small Saskatchewan town and the desire of every man, boy and for those living alternative lifestyles women. Like most homecoming queens and town beauties everyone in town at least when they wer'nt hitting on her were constantly bending her ear about how she should take up modelling, acting, theatre and so on. She should go to Toronto they would say or New York maybe even god willing Los Angeles! Yet like most farmhand bumpkins what they failed to realise is that there's a Kendra in every town, in every city, and if one ever did make it to one of these major cities they'd realise that just about everyone was as pretty as them if not considerably more so. Alas poor suzanne ( her birth name before Jimmy changed it to Kendra) was naive to say the least and while working double and triple shifts at Jimmy's the diner at Main. str. and Sepulda (not somewhere someone would eat if given the choice) and putting up with Jimmy's sticky hands which seemed permanently glued to her tits and ass whenever business was slow suzanne finally managed to somehow while making $8.40 per hour save up the exact amount of $2455. Suzy put aside $455 dollars to get her hair and nails done buy her bus ticket and still have enough for a new outfit. So through townsflok planting those bugs in her ear along with her own naiivety and the promise from Earl who ran the autobody shop in town and was the closest thing suzy had to a father(having dated her now deceased mother for 14 yrs.) that he knew a friend of his sister's who was high up in the offices of Sutherland Models. Suzy practically ran to the bus station to buy her ticket upon hearing that I mean who hasn't
heard of Sutherland Models right? In spite of the fact that most of the well wishers were there to catch suzy in her tight dress in efforts to glimpse a little tits and arse it was a right send off, Ronnie closed the barber shop for an hour to join in down at the bus depot, Tommy the slow kid who walked around town most days collecting aluminum cans and mumbling incoherently gave suzy a going away gift that eerily resembled a voodoo doll though finding the gesture awfully sweet suzy smiled kissed him on the cheek and gave him a big squeeze of a hug much to the mighty chagrin of the rest of the men in the crowd most who couldn't even hide their dissapointment earning them a wack from their wives purses. After receiving individual advice about the big city from all in attendence and ironically none of those in attendence had never been outside of town Earl gave suzy a jerk of the head indicating he wanted a word alone. Earl looked at Suzy with fatherly affection cupped her cheek in one hand told her how proud he was of her and in a slick almost covertlike motion slid an expensive bonded business card with raised lettering into the palm of her hand, this guy does the pick ups for all the Sutherland girls he arranges places to stay food clothing that sort of thing you call this # when you get to the depot in Toronto hell be waiting there for you and you don't keep him waiting girl ya here? These are busy people and they're going out on a limb for me , got it sugarbear? That was Earl's pet name for suzy growing up "now give me some sugar sugar bear." The two locked in an embrace only seen in the closest of families, they exchanged I love you's and Earl with a tear in his eye told suzy how much he loved her, funny thought suzy for she had never seen Earl shed a tear not once, not even when mamma died;it made her love him and everything he'd done for her that much more. In spite of the love she felt for Earl there was something unsettling something she couldn't explain it was just a tear and so what if he wasn't one for waterworks but there just seemed to be so much pain in that tear and it made her sad to know he loved her that much.
Suzy boarded the bus and when the door closed she saw a fresh tear rolling down Earl's cheek like like a crystal pearl slowly rolling off his chin and dripping on the collar of his flannel, suzy couldn't pinpoint exactly the emotion on Earl's face but if she was forced to guess: remorse and maybe even guilt would come to mind......