"Addie, are any examples of the Dick and Jane books in your archives?" She quietly asked the station AI.Since we were fairly well shielded from the st...dents at the control boards Addie displayed a child's book. The pages were open and I could see what was written there. I didn't know much about education but I had to admit that I thought those books and now that I thought about it some of the books I'd been taught with had similarly treated me like I was stupid."These are bad," I said, "and if. I found myself telling her exactly how I felt at the time and on my way home and then finally what I did when I got home lol. She seemed a very ‘interested’ in what I was telling and I told her about my first experience when I was 17 as well. I remember her standing up then and asking if she could kiss me again and of course I said yes. OMG it was like the very first time I had kissed a boy at school. I had the fluttering stomach and the tingling lips and it was a long, lingering, passionate. After four weeks, she disappeared as surreptitiously as she arrived. She was captivating. Now she was gone. She was paradise, lost forever.Eleven months passed before she suddenly reappeared. She furtively arrived late in the afternoon, laid out as rotisserie in the sun, read, enjoyed a brief swim before silently vanishing. She was always alone, never saying a word or acknowledging anyone. Her beauty and mysteriousness were irresistible.One warm day, almost four weeks after her return, I. She asked me what I knew about Tina's background and I hit the high points.I told her I thought she was very smart as well as very nice person and that she was also a close friend. She got serious then and said "I also heard from contacts at the local precinct what transpired yesterday. You are not the young man I expected to meet. I looked at the photos that were taken at the hospital but until I saw firsthand what had been done to that young lady and heard from her what she has had to endure.