It’s a full 2000 acres of mountains and plains. When you turn 18, darlin, it’s all yours. I’m going to retire and live the good life not that I ...aven’t anyway.” Sarah’s mouth dropped open, “mine? Oh Pappa, I don’t know what to say. I don’t know anything about ranching. I have no clue nor the education. How can I operate something like this?” “Well, Sarah, and you too Brenda. I’m telling you both here and now, I’m sending you to the best colleges, both of you. Sarah, you’re blood and it’s all. They were actually more intimate than Stick and his wife, though.“It’s just that Raymond and Mildred Adams tended to share lovers. They had a saying. ‘The couple that strays together, stays together.’ This arrangement was broken, however, by her affair with Clifford. He had no interest in Raymond at all and repeatedly rebuffed their attempts to entice him into that kind of threesome. Raymond gave up and began taking on lovers of his own, many of them in far riskier situations, leading to HIV. Still kissing her neck and fondling her breasts simultaneously: I grope her even firmer. I, then, take my right hand, slide down her navel, slip into her panties, and start lightly rubbing her pussy...Her breathing is more erratic now: as I take my fingers and access the sweet and smooth area between her lips. She spreads her legs and lets me know that her pussy is now mine...I whisper in her ear, "You like that?"She meekly replies, "Yes......mmmmmm..."I take my thumb and lightly press on her. Either way, it must have been tough on Laura. In fact, it was shortly after Martin’s accident that she changed her demeanor so radically. Almost as if she had become a different person. She started dressing sexily, almost provocatively, and started hanging out with people who according to most of Leskow were ‘the wrong crowd’. And suddenly there were rumors about her in school. She would do almost anything for money, that’s what was being said. Strangely enough, despite all this, Laura’s grades.