Why don't we just go down CanalStreet on a Saturday night, visit a few clubs and see who is about?" Because there is a reason Canal Street is said to ...e in the GayVillage, it's a gay place man and I am not gay"."Shit Alex no one said you were gay and I am not suggesting we doanything just go and have a look. It will be cool and it is abouttime we got out of this flat. We might as well go for a beer downCanal Street as anywhere else".Reluctantly Alex agreed and that Saturday the two lads paid. ..Kat, what are you....?" It's an apology. I realised I made you feel uncomfortable when I foundyou were wearing-" Hey, now," I said. "Let's just use our quiet voices and....."I noticed Abbie looking at me."......go back to my office," I suggested.SEVENAlone, Kat told me to open the box.I did so with trembling fingers. Carefully peeling layers of gorgeouslyscented wrapping paper back to reveal a beautiful, pink, matching set."I had to guess your size, but I have a pretty good eye. About a. I mean, it can be. I've showered with several of the women whom I've been intimate with, including my former wife, who, one might suppose, would be as used to us being naked together as could be. But NONE had the poise and presence of Kim. It's like she KNEW that she was IT, the Queen, the One and Only. And THIS was the creature in the shower with me, all soapy and giggly. I lathered her from head to toe with one exception. I held the soapy washcloth."You? Or me?" I asked."Me today, babe," she. I complain always of not working for money, so much that Linda becomes angry with me just as I do with Unkgat for his whining complaints in the hunt, and then when she tells me stop my talk I am so foolish as to use strong drink—alcohol, Linda says is name—to forget what I see as my sorrows.The alcohol is as stupid as I think when I have seen others use it for that reason, or any reason. At first it gives a little lightness, but soon all seems still worse than before and first the mind and then.