For the nest week or so, we hardly spoke and I was starting to fear that Leslie was going to leave me. Maybe I’d pushed her too quickly? I was miser...ble until she finally started seeing me in person again. But she still seemed to have some dark secret that she was afraid to tell me. I asked but she just said she wasn’t ready yet. We kissed and cuddled but she seemed unready for any other intimacy. Then one day she seemed back to her normal self and suggested we go for a walk in the woods behind. Is this what hypnosis feels like? I quickly began to feel frightened. It felt like one of those dreams when you tell yourself to wake up but you can’t. Then I felt John lift my arm and let it go. My arm flopped as though I was dead. Every time he lifted it up I tried my hardest to keep it up, but I just couldn’t do it. Then John spoke again: ‘What do we have here then? I’m going to have some fun with you my pretty little wife friend.’ What the fuck was going on! I thought to myself as fear and. Erin stood proudly at the arm of her father, and offered a touch or a smile as she felt the situation warranted. Many a family member would go to their knees and reach out and touch the hem of her robe. At first it embarrassed her greatly, but when Emory murmured in ear that it gave them strength to know that the death of a loved one had not been in vain, she tried to smile and touch as many as she could. Arthur signaled his encouragement to her from time to time.Finally, they came to the. ” I laughed. “I thought maybe you’d feel that way – except one thing; I’m not going in the store, you are.” “Me? I have no idea what to get!” “Well I’m not parading around in this costume, so it’s got to be you. Just ask the guy; they always have that guy that manages the wine department, I think he’s always there. Damn, what’s his name…oh yeah, Roger! He’s great at helping you pick, he’s never steered me wrong. Just tell him what we’re doing and that you’d like a case each of a decent Merlot.