Even though she could explain the chemistry concepts to me, she really struggled with the mathematical applications of the concepts. If you don't know...much about chemistry, it requires a significant amount of math to solve problems based on the chemical theories. My lectures in class are usually peppered with math both to teach the concepts and to provide examples on problem solving. It was the math that had caused Maria to get lost. Here in my office, I had stayed away from the math in my. ." Thinks what?" She thinks you'll make a really good looking girl!" Mum, I can't believe you're asking me to do this..." I know it's a bit of a strange request, but it's an emergency. Thewedding is in a few hours, she had no one else she could ask." Why can't she just have one bridesmaid less?" Caroline was quite insistent that she will have four bridesmaids. Youknow she's superstitious about numbers, and symmetry. There has to betwelve people in her wedding party, her and David, four. "Let's stop here for thenight."I was tired anyway, so I agreed. Jenny checked at thefront desk and came back to the car. She helped meout and carried me across the threshhold.Jenny unbuttoned my sleeves. Then she deliberatelyunfastened each button along my back, starting at thetop and working ever so slowly to the bottom. Sheunfastened the tiny hook at the top of the dress andinched the zipper downward, teasingly slow. My pulseraced as Jenny worked to unwrap her virgin bride.When the zipper. I soon realized that in the space of an hour or two, some change had come over me. I wasn’t embarrassed or humiliated; it seemed to me that I had been set free. Somehow, not even knowing what I had been missing all my life, I now knew that I wanted it all. I knew there were sexual delights that I couldn’t even imagine yet, but I wanted them! Erica and Dave sat at the foot of my bed and the four of us talked for a while. I was surprised at first when these three young people revealed to me that.