You think your best hope is to keep your head down and ignore the slurs and shoves and hope to survive senior year. Maybe college will be populated wi...h more enlightened folk. Or at least ones less likely to humiliate and haze you. Maybe you'll even meet a girl that is into shorter guys that are a little on the scrawny side, who just might be described as slightly androgynous, and who think 'size' doesn't matter. All you have to do is last long enough for that snowball's chance in Hell.Then. .. I don't know quite how to say it, but not having a mother has made things a bit difficult for me." Oh I know Peter, I know," the older woman said sympathetically, laying her hand on her young nephew's thigh in a motherly sort of way.Marilyn wasn't quite sure what was happening to her but for the past few moments she had begun to feel sort of different, it was almost as if she had had a few drinks but not quite, it was a different sort of feeling, one that she couldn't quite identify.. "They kind of smell." There's a stack of clean towels at each shower," Courtney said. "Get in and get out. By the time you're done the steaks will be on the grill." You guys are cooking?" I said."No. We girls are cooking. Humor us. It's not often that we get two-to-one treatment from the guys in our clan!"Well, I wasn't sure that having two of us guys for every girl was really a benefit for the girls. It seemed like it was just twice as much work for them. But we had great fun and a nice. At most, Polly had been a friend with benefits.I had just hung up from talking to Polly when I heard mom’s car drive in and the garage door close. It was around 9:30, and I was anxious to know how mom’s date went. I stood up when she came in, and I could see her eyes were puffy, and she had been crying. I quickly went to her, put my arm around her back, led her to the couch, and sat her down.“What happened, Mom? Did he hurt you?”Mom waved her hand and shook her head, “No, no, he did not.