From now on we'll just have plain boring sex, once a month, or whenever you're not too tired and sore from your day." I had finished dressing, and mad... to leave. "I have to go to work now."She nodded. I could see she was not happy, but I honestly didn't know what else to do. Our sex life had become routine and needed spicing up. I didn't want to go outside of our marriage, but I couldn't live with things the way they were, either. I had tried everything I could think of to get her to open up,. Nearly every man in the place clustered around her, though she was a head or more taller than most of them. She was black, with shoulder-length hair, big gold hoops for earrings, and the longest legs Laura had ever seen, even longer than Yvette's, in black net stockings.Laura felt familiar stirrings when she looked at the beautiful black girl, but she tried to ignore them, feeling she didn't have much of a chance. The girl was obviously enjoying the attention of the men. Later, however, she ran. I was… drunk out of my mind.”I’d heard of alcohol amnesia before, but I wasn’t buying this. “What a convenient explanation, Marika,” I angrily erupted. “Sounds like a crock of shit to me! How is it that you can’t remember the details?”Mel intervened and said, “Now, Jack, remember what I said about being civil? Marika, you don’t need to answer his question.”“No, I want to answer. I remember flashes of different men pulling at me, their laughter and the awful stink of cigars… I’m so sorry, but I. After a while, she got tired of the game,but still, she would look the other way. We were still all right." So what happened?" A guy happened," Shannon said, looking into her coffee."Guys can do that," Coco said."It was her idea, you know," Shannon said, as if she suddenly needed totalk about it. "She told one of our best friends about it. LarryBishop. So Larry wanted to see me dressed. And then he wanted to have athreesome. I couldn't believe that Beth agreed to it. I've alwayswondered if if.