Although Roxy left town more than fifteen years ago, her memory has never faded. Her expected return starts to impact a number of lives, including that of her ex-husband Denton Webb. But it is Dinky, the adopted daughter of the Bossettis and ignored by most of her classsmates as a strange loner, who may be most changed. She is convinced she is Roxie's secret child.

Dinky Bossetti:
From a deep, immaculate kiss she spread her two ripe, dripping limbs and then I happened.


Teacher:
I beg your pardon.


Dinky Bossetti:
And the moon throbbed and fought with an angry sun all that day and all that night. Until it forced me out.


Teacher:
Dinky!


Dinky Bossetti:
Now I scald here... alone. Touch me. With your white words and your dead hands. Now before I freeze.


Teacher:
That'll be enough!


Dinky Bossetti:
And become one of you.


Teacher:
DINKY!


Dinky Bosseti:
You interrupted me.

Written and Performed by Melissa Etheridge
Courtesy of Island Records, Inc.