She wouldn’t be there to lie those lies about the world to me anymore. The world is cruel and the lie of blood is the cruelest of all: that your blo...d and kin are always going to be there for you simply because they’re your blood. They have no obligation. That’s when I learned that the choice of the bonds you make are more powerful than blood. We can’t choose our parents. We have no choice with that, but we have a choice in who we decide to populate our world with. I was just one person when I. And in the light of the bathroom I studied every nuance of her beauty, her face and the particulars of her body. Even the flaws I saw, the moles and subtle scars, ghosts of a childhood injury or of a bout of acne, just made her more ... Mel. More real, and more pleasing to look at because of it. And not just visual aesthetics, but the feel of her flesh as well.And Mel seemed just as appreciative of me. Of seeing me in detail and feeling me.We took turns standing for the other to clean the lower. “Sadly no. The group has a very strict rule, no singles. You must have a partner to join; a good rule really. It stops anyone trying to steal a partner.”Cathy’s mind was turning cartwheels and she could hardly believe her own ears when she heard herself say, “So. if you had a partner, you could join again?”“Yes, I suppose I could, but let's face it, a sixty-year-old widower is hardly going to have single sexy ladies queuing up to be his sex partner, is he?” Tom said in a sad voice.The. I am not going to tell her tonight because she would be up half the night. We'll see you two tomorrow, Harry."When I got off the phone Sandra was watching a Harry Potter movie. This one was different than one from the cabin. I wasn't for sure how many of these movies there were, but I knew she liked them. I decided since she was watching TV I would go ahead and get a shower. I went into the bathroom and took my shower and I don't even think she realized I was gone. When I came out from the.