"Charlie, let me give you some advice. Don't ever fall for an older woman. They're too set in their ways to listen to reason."Charlie didn't know whet...er to laugh or crawl under the table. Shirley's look even frightened me for a second.There was hell to pay in bed that night. She resisted my attempt to pull her to me."You're going to miss me when I'm gone. Who's going to look after you?" You're not going any place. You're going to the graduate school across the river." I'm not even thinking of. It had hit Jim's mother hard she refused to leave the house, and spent most of her time in bed with a bottle of whiskey. Jim basically took care of himself and had been for the past three weeks since it had happened. But now he was starting to feel the strain of it all.Jim stood up and moved towards the doorway. The teacher stopped."Jim?" he asked with concern in his voice."I have to go," said Jim head bowed as he opened the door and left.Jim walked down the dusty old corridors of his collage. I went home earlier than usual, not waiting for last call. Jennings’ number was listed in the book. It was probably none of my business, but I wanted to ask why he’d been fired. No one around the office was going to talk about it. It just seemed weird to me, and Fisher’s dismissal of the subject made it even more so. Maybe the rum was getting to me, but calling the guy up made a good kind of sense. A husky robot voice answered at Jennings’ place, letting me know that the number had been. Bound as I was there was nothing I could do but lay there and accept whatever they chose to do, I didn’t understand any of this at all or what it had to do with my last exam but I couldn’t even protest with the odd retainer holding my mouth wide open. Finally after having it rubbed thoroughly around me down there inside and out he put the cap back on the tube of cream and pulled off his gloves and walked out from between my legs. “Okay young lady, we are going to let that cream work for a.