Most people would be seniors in high school or in college and I probably wouldn’t know anyone. I told him I was afraid of getting found out and he a...sured me I had nothing to worry about. I looked just like a real girl and no one would find out I was a boy. I was relieved so I let it go and decided to have some fun on the way home. I unzipped him and started sucking him as we drove. He told me I was a good girl and asked if I remembered that I had promised to do anything he said. I promised him. ‘He got shipped to Iraq. He volunteered to go into the military. He was on patrol out by the airport in Baghdad when the IED went off.’ I squeezed her hand firmly. I knew where this story was going. ‘He called me from the hospital and told me he was okay and that I shouldn’t worry but he was just trying to make me feel better. He knew then that he would not be coming home.’ Her tears started flowing freely. I moved my chair beside her and put my arm around her shoulder. She rested her head on. “He isn’t sorry about the fight, and I don’t think he tried hard to avoid fighting, but I think he is not himself sure whether he or the other one, this Jerry Trues­dale, began the fight. He does not care, and so he blames the other man.”“Did he mean to kill Truesdale?”“He meant to make injury, to beat the other man as badly as he could,” I answer. “He had no specific intention to kill. Again, he did not care. But he does not know if he killed other man or not.”“But he didn’t go into the fight. " Well, almost everything. "Then I'll ask you to dispense some of your infinite and appreciated wisdom."She laughed and, after pouring herself a cup of coffee, took a seat across the table from me."I think I'm in love." Think?" You won't let me hedge at all, will you?" Not a bit." All right, I'm in love." Tell me about her." That will be difficult because I'm in love with two women, not one."Mother smiled broadly. "Well, well, this sounds more interesting than I anticipated. Tell me about one,.