He walked into the bathroom and began brushing his teeth watching his reflection in the mirror. Peter was not ugly but he was quite fat. He always fel... he needed to do something about it and tried a few times but every time he lost 20 pounds he would take 40. After trying for 5 years in a row, he gave up. You might think, OK, well this guy clearly doesn’t have it all but he is living a pretty decent life. He has his own apartment, he is a freshman and he studies linguistics. He even earns money. "You should never touch or hold this in anyway except carefully," he was telling me. "My pain yesterday was because the ball hit me right here," he was saying lifting the sack, "and it really hurt. Men are very sensitive here and it doesn't take much to hurt them."Poppa took my hand, turned it palm up and laid that sack in my hand. I can still remember how hot and heavy it felt as he showed me how I could hold and gently play with the things inside. Thinking back it seems he called them balls. "Well you disgusting pervert!" Heather grabbed Jeremy once again by the earand brought him down the stairs two at a time, passing Simone, who was stillrelaxing with her brandy. Heather stopped at the living room level, and gave Jeremy a brutal whippingwith the Big Bad Strap and then pulled him down the next level of stairs tothe cellar, which was a cold, dank place, and quite unheated. Heather opened the door to the basement and shoved Jeremy down thestairs, where he spent quite a cold night,. 'Not you especially. When the other three guys left and you were alone, you got elected.'" 'So what is it?' I ask her." And she says, 'My dad died recently. He was a big fan.'" 'Sorry to hear it, ' I tell her. I mean, I don't know why she's telling me this, but I'm just trying to be like, y'know, polite." 'My dad was the same age as Brooks Robinson, ' she tells me, 'almost right to the day. And he used to play third base when he was young, just like Robinson. 'Course he wasn't, y'know, great.