My caretakers were also male servants. Although my father had more than one wife, I have a few stepsisters, but I was always kept away from my step si...ters and my stepmothers. There was probably some fear or prejudice in my mother's mind towards my stepmothers and step sisters..Even I did not have any girl friends till that time and my school was also only for boys, in which there was no female teacher. I was never allowed to meet girls. I was brought up in a very strict environment.After. At the last minute,thank goodness I thought to cover his privates with a Kotex padheld in place with a tight elastic, or who knows what else mighthave happened. So we sat and enjoyed ourselves through a first drink, andgossiped, and I corrected Tim on how to hold his cocktail glass andsip from it, and tried to get him commenting on different couples'ways of dancing. Since he was being a girl, I insisted he tell mewhat he thought about what the girls were wearing, and also how hefelt about the. David was leaving Saturday morning and coming home Sunday night. Miko called Betty and asked if they could go to the club that Saturday night. Betty said that she would pick Miko up at 9 o'clock and that she should wear something sexy. Miko said that she did not have any sexy maternity clothes. Betty told Miko that she was not that big yet and that she should find something sexy and wear it. Saturday night came and Betty showed up at Miko's house to take her to the club. Betty was dressed. It was in this new setting that I first learned of the power of the ring. Harriet Barrett, she of the blue eyes and black hair, was visiting with her mother and older sister, Catherine. Mrs. Barrett was making sure that Catherine and I had every chance to speak. But it was Harriet by whom I could not help but be entranced.I write this memoir in a time far removed from the events I am narrating and to an audience unfamiliar with those times. I must explain so that what follows in the narrative.