He was wearing the same clothes as when I first met him earlier in the day. Kerry gave me a slight smile and looked me up and down – starting from ...y shoes to my eyes and back down again. I noticed that his gaze lingered on my shoes on their way back down, and my eyes instinctively followed. To my shock and horror, I noticed that you could see a little triangle of black stocking between the hem of my jeans and my loafers. Kerry looked me straight in the eyes, smiled a bit more broadly, then. There was a circle, about ten feet in diameter, whichI was inside of. Trying to step over the edge of the circle had caused meto be tossed back like a rag doll. "The hell?"I sat on the ground, and tried to figure this out. The only explanationthat I could consistently come back to was magic. I was always a bit of afantasy buff, and magic was a word that never really left my vocabularyor the back of my mind. It was for that reason that I liked power metal,with its dragons and far-too-muscular. Putting the blindfold on Denise, John turned to the card table and said, "Now she can't see what's happening and when I put the headphones on her she won't be able to hear what's being said. You guys can say and do anything that you want and she won't know who's doing what!" With that John slipped the headphones on her, turned up the volume of the classical music that was playing, kissed her, and went back to the table!John said to the guys at the table, "Tonight's kind of a spur of the moment. There were a lot of kids in the neighborhood. The age spread was fairly wide - from infants to high school kids. Even within my family, we went from fourteen (my oldest big brother) to six (me). Another brother and our sister came in the middle. Most of the families on the street were young, though there was the retired electrical engineer and his wife who lived on the corner.One hot summer afternoon — the summer I turned seven -- I got tired of playing by myself in the back yard. My friends,.