But I wasn’t happy. In fact, I think I was depressed although I must have been pretty good about not showing it. So I had enough of that life and I...quit. I just turned in my resignation and quit. Surprised a bunch of people including my boss at the time. But I needed a change in scenery. I spent about a month trying to get healthy, eat better, get more sleep, lose weight and restore some muscle tone. Then I got bored. And as if I had forgotten all about the burnout with my prior career, I. "Sammi nodded. "I should be done with tennis practice by then." Do you know what Rod's wearing?" We have a date for day after tomorrow. I'll tell him then. I'll also tell him what color the dress is, not that that will have much effect. He's a guy, after all."Her mother nodded. "He might surprise you, dear." She went back to her scripts. "Dinner will be in about an hour."Sammi went up to her room to change and study. She could hear the murmur from Sam's bedroom. At first she thought it might be. Then she asked me about my boy friend.When i revealed to her that i was a lesbian,she was suprised.But she didnt have any apprehensions.She gave me and approving smile.But i could sense a curiosity in her smile and a twinkle in her eyes. Then we went our ways.After a week i met her again in the elevator.We smiled and spoke.But her smile was very sensual and i felt like she was silently eyeing me when i wasnt looking.Her husband wasnt in town and she was too lazy to cook.So i suggested a pizza. His mother has disowned him and his father died of the disease years ago, leaving him in the care of an aunt and uncle who want as little to do with him as possible. He’d just recently ‘recovered’ from tuberculosis and within ten minutes of our arrival he was taken in a taxi to the hospital because he was vomiting violently. Sister Mary told us very simply ‘we don’t know how long we’ll be able to keep this one’. Until that day I had never encountered a child, or indeed an adult, with HIV, but.