He asserted many times to me that a strong, healthy body assures a healthy mind. I believed him to be speaking the truth, as I believed all things he ...old me.My concerns were minimal, my curiousities unbounded. I had friends, but shared little with them beyond the pleasures of chasing after a ball, and kicking it into a net. My teachers permitted my silent, private nature. My parents gave me gentle affection and respect; feeding my body in the dining room, my heart in the music room, my mind in. Once those were in place and drying, she began working on myhair, explaining that she was giving me some black extensions, plus addingsome blue and white ones as well for some extra color. She weaved theminto my hair and it seemed to take forever! Aurora mentioned that itactually had taken longer than she'd planned, but reassured me that we hadplenty of time as it wasn't even seven o'clock yet.When she finally announced she was finished with my hair, she beganapplying my makeup. Once again she. Blasted traffic was holding up my fuck time! So we stopped and got a bite to eat with hopes for the traffic to let up some, after all it was nearly midnight.After dinner, I paid and Sammie went to use the restroom before we got back on the road as there was no indication of how far the next restroom would be down the road and no telling how long it would take for us to get there at the speed we were driving. As I looked around the shop, all I could think about was getting Sammie home and into. I wanted all of her or nothing. She chose nothing.”The version of the story that Clarissa would tell her friends was that she was getting scared she was falling for me too hard, too quickly and had asked me to cool things down for a while. Give her time to think. And that I wouldn’t budge. I wanted all of her and when she wouldn’t give it, I’d said it was over. We were blaming each other—which we figured would be most believable to our friends. After all, isn’t that what couples do when they.