Flash Forward

Dana laid out by the pool, her favorite spot. It'd been some time now. Alexis and Gianna were 20 and 19, always skeptical and dismissive of their stepmother. Dana was 46 now, and Rocco over 60. Dana did feel loved by Rocco, and played the part of bimbo trophy wife skillfully. But part of her always knew she was chosen so her former nemesis could say he won. And damn it, she couldn't deny that he did. And if she ever did doubt, he was there to pay for another surgery or dress she wanted. She'd done good, last year, upgrading to DD titties. So many new clothes.

Dana's ex-wife Elizabeth still lived with Jordan and Mira and Monique. Aaron, now 20, had grown up obsessed with his two stepmothers, watching transsexual porn exclusively every night, and no closer to losing his virginity.

Emily, always feeling stigmatized by her non-traditional family, dropped out early in high school. She'd originally settled down in a trailer park near her old babysitter, Faith, but had slowly drifted out to the hood, near a seedy strip club.

Katie, a freshman in college, had a different response to her non-traditional upbringing. She was a journalism major, and she wanted to become an investigative reporter one day. A project she'd assumed for herself was this: who was her birth father, and why had he left their family? Her mother was uncooperative, but Katie wasn't going to be stymied on this one.