What?" I hoped you'd want to be more than friends when I offered you that kiss," Molly replied. "It was stupid. You made that clear enough when you ye...led at me about the kiss." I wasn't yelling about you kissing me," Josh answered. "You acted like you expected us to stroll into Loomis the next morning to a grand parade to city hall where the mayor would give us the keys to the city. You were counting too heavily on getting back to civilization the next day. I was trying to temper your hopes in. She was incorrigible. She would be something on the witness stand."My wife is pregnant with our first. We have our first ultrasound today." He steered around a particularly bad stretched of road. "I'm heading on my way to pick her up."Why didn't that answer make her feel any better, she wondered, even as she congratulated him.She was still wondering ten minutes later when he dropped her off at the garage where she got most of the work done on her car. He had been very polite, very nice. He had. We relax, supine, and our passion mounts as we explore each others' bodies with our eyes, our hands, and our mouths. The skin on your legs springs up with goosebumps as my fingers trail lightly up your thighs. I feel, rather than hear, your gasp as I touch your essense with my mouth, tasting you, rolling your sweet flower across my toungue. You move in slow, flowing rhythms, as my exploration continues. My hands open you to me, and I penetrate your center with a movement of my mouth. I feel. Grandfather always kept his word, and he rammed through Congress the constitutional amendment that let women vote, despite some of the conservative opposition. Grandfather simply proved that he could not be stopped when he set his mind to a goal.Anyone, male or female, who is a citizen of Haven and over the age of 17 can vote in any election of his or her district, and there are few people who do not vote at every opportunity. The majority of office holders are men simply because most women are.