Mary Payson looked at her uncle, Lonk Haney, with a joyous bewilderment as she had as a child 10 years before in Timber Creek near Paris. Mary had endured the jibes from Parisienne classmates about her enormous belly button, and it hurt. Uncle Lonk wisely said nothing about Mary's freakishly-deep umbilicus except to his fellow, senior diplomats at I.C.E.: the International Czechoslovakian Embassy in Paris, France. Now, on the eve of Mary's wedding to Mason Perry, Jr., Mary (who was a ****** except for that unfortunate incident at the queen's royal castle near London, England) wondered fretfully about whether Mason was marrying her for who she was inside or merely because she possessed the deepest belly button in the world. She had accepted the fact as coincidence that Mason Perry, Jr.'s family owned the Belly Button Memorial Museum in Toronto, Ontario.