“Never mind. I’m going to give this to you for safekeeping. You must promise me never to misplace it and you must swear never to open it and if I ...ver need it, no matter where I am, you will do your utmost to bring it to me. This is very important to me Sophie.” She stared at him for a moment dumbfounded then took a deep breath and said, “Very well Josef, I promise….and I swear.” “Good, good.” She was confused and felt a little hurt by his enigmatic manner but at the same time she was flattered. Frederick’s brows lifted, creasing her forehead with small lines. ‘It was a dare. A stupid football team dare.’ Ben’s shoes scuffed the carpet. ‘I was the co-captain of the team.’ Ben began, ‘Amanda was stringbean skinny, her hair tied into a knot behind her head or braided. She looked like a housekeeper from the 1800s. She had no boobs. She never, ever wore a dress or skirt, and none of us ever recalled her doing so. She was a tomboy. So much so, that there was talk that Amanda wasn’t a girl. Jessie was an idiot. An idiot isn’t a stupid person, no, an idiot is someone who is either ill-informed or miss-informed, but incapable of changing their behaviors or their beliefs when faced with their misinformation. It’s like Uma Thurman’s dialogue in that old movie “Pulp Fiction”, there are people who listen and those who wait to talk, an idiot will pretend to listen but they’re really only waiting to talk.So Gary looked at her and said, “This could be our big chance. We could start over.. "Please knock before you come in", she had said one day as she draped a towel around her.'I should have fucked her the first day I met her', he muttered to himself as he took note of the ingredients of this sexual herb. 'But no I was a nice bloke and didn't seriously touch her till we married. I think she was desperate, afraid of being left on the shelf and I was too immature to not recognize the warning signs. Oh! well that is the way the dice has fallen, but fuck I'm going to give this a go..