Als er endlich an die Stelle kam, fand er ein paar Sachenauf dem Boden, aber keine Frau. Daf?r flog ein Licht schnell weg.Er nahm die Sachen mit nach ...ause. Eines dieser Sachen war das Halsband.Zuerst lag es einige Zeit herum, bis jemand ihn besuchte. Die Frau,neugierig wie Frauen sind, probierte das Halsband an. Aber dann bekam siees nicht mehr ab.In den n?chsten Tagen ver?nderte sie sich. Sie sah immer ges?nder undsch?ner aus. Einige kleine Narben verschwanden. Ausgezogene Z?hne warenauf. It would make it a lot easier and a lot more satisfying to have you involved.”She looked at me and nodded. “Brad barely pays any attention to me. I’m already in bed when he comes home most nights and me crying isn’t exactly new to him.” She hung her head with that admission.“Doris, we’re gonna make you a new woman. That’s an important part of anything we’re doing. Crying is going to be a thing of the past for you and you won’t have to do it alone from now on. I’m gonna give you my phone number. It was afterthis that I took up boxing; I never wanted to be victimised again andthis was what drove me to do well in boxing. We are ok now but it hasleft a terrible scar. In my case I can't trust men, which is why I tookit out on you when you came to do the interview." Karla began to cry,quietly at first, "I should never have treated you like that Lynn, I'mso sorry," and she began to sob with increasing force.Lynn moved over and took Karla in his arms and held her tightly againsthim, speaking. "Miriam, I didn't say it because there's really no need for me to. When we were together a few minutes ago, we were truly one. I could feel everything you felt and every breath you took. How you felt about me came through loud and clear and I'm pretty sure the way I felt went through to you. That's why people make love, Miri. That feeling of closeness and being one is what it's all about. If you don't get that feeling, you're just fucking and it doesn't really matter who you're doing it with.".