I didn't want them to depend on me being around. Besides, I expected to be back for Christmas and that was only 4 months away.I left for Goshen and we...t into the first saloon I came to. I walked up to the bar and ordered a beer. My beer had hardly arrived when the marshal came up and asked for a few minutes of my time. I told him that I always had time to talk to him, so we went to an empty table. Each of us sipped on our beer, and I waited for the marshal to speak.He asked, "Do you know Martin. Like nothing she'd ever felt before. She thought it reminded her of a slab of uncooked beef. Cold, lifeless, clammy flesh.He took her. He took her there. The alley. She knew it was bad then, but she had no idea how bad it would get. Everything happened so fast. One minute she was a normal girl, the next it all changed.She was 13. She spent her days at school, her afternoons with friends or at the mall, her evenings doing homework, and her nights watching the pointless soaps she'd taped during. Her graceful neck was tantalizingly exposed with her hair pinned up and John could just make out the firm swell of the sides of her breasts cradled in a black bra. Quietly, he crept up to her until he could feel the heat of her body on his face. He noticed her stiffen in shock as he inhaled the womanly scent of jasmine shampoo and apricot lotion. He raised his hands and left them poised inches from her skin. They hovered down her bare shoulders and arms, the electric heat tantalizing them both.. Several of the men at the bar, no doubt the two who had been spurned among them, watched in fascination as she moved like sensual fluid right up to me. She held the glass aloft as is to toast, then looked right into my eyes and said, “Make me smile, and I’ll drink with you. Make me laugh out loud and I’ll have dinner with you.” The bartender and a few of the men overheard this, and the area around the bar got very quiet, waiting to hear what I would say. Now, I make people laugh for a.