The door is open, she is alone, for now. It has taken many years for Beth to realize who she is and what she wants from her life. She has worked at ma...y careers, the latest being the owner of a small curio and gift shop on the main street of a small coastal British Columbia town. The store keeps her busy, but not so much that she cannot enjoy her many pleasures. It also offers her the wonderful opportunity to travel and to explore. In her heart, Beth is a girl of simple taste. She is, however,. I just prayed Amanda wasn’t waiting for me so we could walk home together like we normally did. As soon as I left campus and walked my normal route home I heard her yell behind me. “Hey wait up stranger.” I turned around and watched her run up to me. I cursed under my breath asking myself why didn’t I just keep walking without her. She finally caught up and was shortly out of breath, “Why didn’t you wait for me?” I smiled and shrugged, “I figured one of your new friends would offer you a. She knew that Nathan is already seeing someone else and she knew that it will never be the same for both of them. She knew that he is the past, and she needs to move on. Afterall, it has been 6 long months since they separated ways. She was beginning to feel sorry for herself when she was yet again interrupted by a phone call. She picked up her phone without looking to see who that was. She was not expecting any calls from anyone anyway."Ashlei here." she said with a tinge of irritation. "Why. A surprisingly large number of the population weren't even taught about sex, much less the concept of sexual taboos. Even this strange religion wasn't immune from the usual religious stigmas, including fear of sexual promiscuity which, they believed, would lead to sexual deviance and crimes. The elders decided the best way to avoid sexual crimes was to avoid teaching how sex worked all together. Getting such a stigma to stick to an increasingly non-religious population's culture was no easy.