Then he bent down and kissed her softly on the mouth, and then again, then moved one hand around behind her neck and pulled her to him strongly and su...denly they were kissing with passion and intent, their tongues having found one another in their budding lust. As they continued to kiss he moved his hands down, onto her shoulders, and then down both slender tanned arms and took her gently by the hands pulling her body to him, so that her breasts only just brushed the dirt course here of his. Seeing that she was still confused, he said, "Babies don't stand up and walk around. They sit on the floor and crawl. They shake their rattles and suck on their bottles." Oh," Denise said.Dale said, "I'm going to leave for a half an hour. I want you to play like a baby and then get undressed. We'll do this over again."Denise frowned and said, "I've got to know something." What?" Do you really get off on this costume?" Denise asked.Dale laughed and said, "No, but no woman that I've ever met has. ??You?re frightened about hospital and your operation???Not in the way you mean, I?m frightened that something might go wrongand I?ll come out of it a different person, no longer in love, nowanting you beside me in a bed, nothing the same again.? The ariafinished then and I turned into him and we kissed, a long, tender, softkiss. ?I?m okay now, everything is going to be okay.? He smiled andnodded. ?I?ll remember, you?re superstitious and mustn?t be kissedduring Madam Butterfly but is it. "I always thought that someday ... someday I would meet him."I met a lot of guys. Some of them even looked just how imagined they should, but they were all assholes. All of them. They all treated me like dirt and none of them cared about Katie. None of them showed any concern for me, only for themselves."That day ... that day you came to try to break it off with me, when you said you wanted me to paint the building. You didn't do it because of my mom, did you? I remember what you said. You.