There was once a young woman named little Blue Riding hood. She was born as the child of Spaniards but adopted by a Norwegian family only because her real parents were a busy Spanish family. It was complicated. She had ten toes and ten fingers. God made her well. In fact, there are several successful adopted individuals in the world whether they know they are adopted or not. She was quite capable but did not take compliments well. She was offered scholarships but did not accept them. She was told that she was loved by a Norwegian gentleman and a young man from Poland but she ran away as soon as they showed sincere acceptance. She was offered a private loan to study chiropractic care but refused it since the lender asked her to pay it back with a 20% stake in her chiropractic business someday. The loan involved no interest. The lender was a boyfriend (now ex- boyfriend since she worked hard to chase him away and secure her belief that all relationships will end in an unfortunate breakup of some kind. She was great at causing break-ups). One of her cousins would borrow one of her dresses every time she had a new relationship. She was a very negative person; this cousin. Her cousin's negativity seemed to affect Blue Riding Hood's perceptions on relationships. Her cousin and a few family member's enjoyed it when Blue Riding Hood was single. Well, it wasn't the boyfriend's fault so he didn't mind too much. Every boyfriend took this point of view. There are many fish in the sea; they say. She also quit a job once after she introduced her female manager to her boyfriend at a staff barbecue. The manager enjoyed meeting her betrothed( being betrothed before a formal marriage like Shakespeare is not living in uh sin unless your intentions are sinful. Just do what you want; right? The divorce rate is 60/40 anyway and you certainly believe as you were told since 1865 that you have more honour in Heaven getting formally married before your formal divorce( formal divorce) so leave those old fashioned types alone. They might have a destination wedding in ten years if it pleases you). Anyway, the boyfriend was a quiet tennis player. The manager invited her for lunch and Blue said no simply because she was afraid her manager was interested in her tennis playing betrothed. While she said no to lunch with the manager, the truth is that PMS was her greatest excuse to be verbally abusive, reject opportunities and to deny all responsibility while maintaining a childish, sympathy seeking, control over situations. It was sort of like witchcraft in that she would create scenarios where an angry reaction would be her own personal response to her hurtful and selfish behaviours as she would lick her fingers in front of someone, on occasion, as if sizing up a meal. But, there was no reaction. At the end of it all, she had to be satisfied with what she intended and the scenarios she created over and over again but she was sort of cute at 38 and said she was a good girl so people laughed and looked the other way most often. Her intention was consistent with her personal belief. That belief was not to have any true friends; friends that believed in the word of God and how you can use it to inspire people with stories or advice columns (even inspiroscopes like horoscopes but written based on the word of God and they have nothing to do with signs really) based on its principles. That belief was rejection. It was to refuse to take a hand of friendship or support from someone or anyone who said she was likable and capable. She would usually break up two to three times a quarter so it was impossible to establish when the relationship started or ended. It really ended every day and she would say she was trying to find a better man but, in truth, she needed to find peace with her maker and find herself in Him. Every works a lot better after that. If God wants you to breathe for 40 years, you will so try to be at peace in world where most people you meet choose to deny His existence for faith in Martians and Mermaids. If they exist, it may help to believe that God created them as well like He created a whitish man and a blackish man that both get excited equally over the nice flavours in sweet and sour chicken, hydroponic coriander and a pint of 0.0 % alcohol Groslch beer. So, she would tell her new boyrfriend to have his 0.0% Grolsch beer (His name was Wintson.) and have a uh smile. Winston was part-native from Oregon where she grew up but he had a lot of Jamaican friends who adopted him. They taught him how to be a good American and convinced him of the ways of the world; that is how to frown upon anyone who felt stoosh(google and see all 90 different definitions) to them ( anyone who could describe three scenes from three different Shakespeare plays apparently)But, there feelings were rather subjective since every student from High School in Oregon wrote the same exams set by the state and no one graduated unless they did the work. This was obviously so at her school called Diction Hill that was surrounded by corn fields and not too far from ED Scowle which was a feeder school for UnionJackville. Her mother tried to offer attention for her to graduate and for Winston as well( he was impressionable when growing up) because she wanted to remember how she influenced her daughter's success but the teachers said that no one graduates(especially naturalised immigrant children from the West Indies of all places) with their parents offering that type of attention. The mother was offering a foot rub and nothing more or a chocolate if prudish about your pedicures. No one was sure of what she wanted. Winston joined the ROTC at College, took bible College lessons online and painted a British flag on the inside of his helmet since the Jamaicans said that everybody respects a British accent even if its the accent of a hydroponic producer of garden herbs. Blue Riding Hood rejected herself as soon as Winston graduated from Bible College online since he felt too uhm "stoosh". Winston decided to choose God's definitions of how the world is to be understood and how he should feel about himself as a child of God and every other aspect of his life. That is all. In doing that, he did not hide his appreciation for Shakespeare. He was excited about it but was sure to stay in touch with his friends. Blue Riding Hood healed when she learned that the Anglican Priesthood was her real father's occupation as he dropped off bars off cash every now and again from his part-time Lion sticker business. His name was Creeg Daniell. She was called Blue because it was also the colour of the sky in which she dreamed of flying. She dreamed significantly and there was nothing wrong if you have dreams as her cousin told her.