She wanted to study abroad and she was finally going to realize her dream of going to another country. Starting next semester she would be studying in...England. Since Mary was feeling a lot better I assumed she would be leaving soon but I found myself not wanting her to leave. I had grown fond of her and would miss her company and the way she made me laugh. I thought about this while we were having dinner and I decided to ask her. “Hey, when do you start classes?” I asked. She dropped her. .. this Birdie woman seemed to like what she was seeing when I started shucking my clothes. I had spent the last several years growing up in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, taking long walks in the hills with a .22 rifle, backpacking, cross-country skiing, and working summer jobs moving sprinkler pipes and stacking hay for the local ranchers. I was in good shape.Birdie turns back the blanket and the sheets on one of the beds, and kills the light. The only light in the room is a. He popped the first and poured us each a glass before leaving politely. Kerry raised her glass. “A toast,” she said. “To Starlight and an unusual business venture!” We clinked glasses in agreement. “I assume that you are interested in Starlight then Kerry?” asked Rick. “Oh very much so!” Kerry answered. “But I have a proposal.” “Which is what?” “We can talk about it later, right now we should eat. The food here is fabulous!” Rick looked at me, I had nothing. Whatever Kerry had on her mind,. Gwendolyn was the originator. Being a young girl in the sixties, when she hit 50 she realised that when a woman reached 40 or 50 the world and the majority of men believed their sex drive shrivelled up and died. But the biological fact is that it increases. The problem she found was how to ‘keep going’ so to speak. So when she inherited this block in the early nineties instead of selling up, she tufted all the tenants out and began a campaign to find ‘like-minded’ owners. Of course, you don’t.