Sure, why not, I figured. We got our coffee and sat down. ‘Don’t you have to get home to your wife?’ ‘No, she’s in the city tonight with the...girls…staying over. I’m just bopping around buying her things like this (I lifted the teddy from the bag) and looking for oral sex tips.’ ‘Your wife is so lucky. I wish my guy was so attentive. He’s just so wrapped up in work and the kids sports…I seem to be pushed aside. The counselor said this was one way to get him back.’ ‘Don’t you have to go home to. Monday 26 Sep 1983Monday morning was 'business as usual'. Anita was formal again and Bettybecame the docile maid she was expected to be, though there was afeeling of satisfaction in the air, she felt completed, her eyes wereglowing happily.Anita's parting words sounded like a warning to her and brought her backto reality, "Don't act like a hussy girl; whatever happened during theweekend was simply an outburst of mine, obviously I needed it. Don'texpect though a repetition soon. Now go back to. I could not sleep that night, inanticipation.We met at 10, and sat under a tree in a secluded part of the campus.I brought her the most special gift I could think of, a sonnet Ispent most of the night writing just for her. (It was laterpublished as the first poem in "Desperately Seeking Leah".) Shecried when I finished reciting it to her, and I put her head on myshoulder and kissed her, this time on the lips. She did not resist,but the tears kept on flowing. She was obviously fighting. Like to icefish? The Cloches built ice shanties to rent. Oh yes, the town really blossomed ... right through the entire winter, the spring and the summer was spectacular. With a ticket bought at the Shell, someone regularly won at least a thousand dollars every lottery drawing.The excitement was just slacking off in the fall when Mom bought a ticket and WON a million ... I had nothing to do with that!! I swear! And I did that too ... swore ... and got my mouth washed out with soap."Son of a.