“And which?”“Only the Good Die Young at the party where I met Clarissa. He sang with the daughter of one of the music professors. I’m friends ...ith two of her friends.”“The ones I told you about,” I said to Janey with a silly smile.“That was hot even speaking as a lesbian!” Glenda laughed. “I was shocked you simply walked away!”“There was no ‘simply’ about it,” I chuckled. “I went outside in the 15°F weather to cool off!”“Petrovich may talk like a pig at times, but he has better sense than to. Why would this lady sit down to play black jack without knowing how to play the game. Could it be that she was kind of into me as well? I certainly hoped so! I decided I would do my best to find out.“So how much cash would you like to play with?” I asked, “Or better said would be to ask how much money are you comfortable losing? Not that I think you’ll lose. But it’s better to do the math beforehand.”“Oh wow. I would have never thought about it like that,” she looked at me for a good moment, “I. Once inside he walks to the side of the room and sighs, looking around and seeing nothing, then on the ground is a single beautiful rose, kneeling down to pick it up, a quick shadow flows over him and on the ground, gasping he looks up quickly but sees nothing, shaking his head, ‘this is foolish, what are you doing, you have work you have to do.’ Standing again he moves to exit the building, but then a sudden sweet music plays, the melody surging through the room, turning he sees her, the woman. He watched in awe as they bathed her body. From head to toe, they caressedher smooth brown skin. Each maiden knew that one day she would be in the sameposition and she lavished all the pampering and care she would want on herself,creating a space in the universe for her actions to be returned in kind whenit was her time to ascend. Intricate henna tattoos of ancient Adinkra symbolswere skillfully applied to Olutuunde's spine, a spiritual road map of sortsfor her energy to be raised up through.