


They see Luciente's child, Dawn, playing she reminds Connie strongly of her own daughter Angelina.Things could be worse (less pot, less nudity, more jealousy). She also explains that this happy future (with the pot and the nudity and some jealousy) is only one possible future.Luciente asks why it took people in Connie's day so long to revolt against injustice.Despite the marijuana and the nudity, people still get jealous in the future. Jackrabbit and Bolivar are performing together and kiss Luciente feels jealous.We learn, by the way, that Innocente made it through her initiation and is now called Hawk.(In the future, you can smoke weed and be nude.) She gives one to Connie, too Connie worried it's too transparent.Luciente is wearing a dress they wear dresses ("flimsies") for special occasions.In the future, you're allowed to smoke weed. Luciente is partying and has been drinking and smoking marijuana.She waits around the night before Dolly is supposed to show up and is anxious and bored, so she calls for Luciente.Connie leaves a message on Dolly's machine then she gets a letter from Dolly saying she'll come.It's all humiliating and sordid and awful. You have to get in line for the phone call… and ask the Nurse for permission.Skip gives her money to call Dolly, who Connie hopes will get her out.He figures anything has to be better than that.

Skip says he had electrodes strapped to his penis before and they zapped him whenever he got aroused by pictures of men in an effort to cure him of homosexuality.Connie is chatting with Skip, trying to figure out what they're all being tested and poked and prodded for.
