Tonight you did something you didn't have to, for me. I want to do something for you, something special." Are you sure?" I asked again.Lynn nodded, st...ll smiling."I admit my motives are mixed," she continued. "Besides wanting to do something nice for you, I'm also being a bit selfish." There was a twinkle in her eyes as she said that. "The past few years, all the sex I've had has been in the brothel, as Tamara. That's going to have to change after I graduate and start dating again. I want to. She seemed to have the whole thing planned out. Part of me said that I should have called her parents right then. But another part of me thought, She’s an adult now. She can make her own decisions. Go for it! ‘Okay, let me get my things and we’ll go back to my house.’ We let go of each other and I gathered up all the papers on my desk. I avoided making eye contact with her. I shut off the computer, locked all the file cabinets and turned out the lights in my room. I led her out of the building. He made a habit of sitting on my bed, leaning against me, and asking me to rub powder on his back. Obviously I didn't mind any of those things. Late one evening, something happened that changed our relationship forever. Our on-duty instructors always toured the halls immediately after taps. Johnny, knowing full well that the showers were off limits after taps, had waited until the very last minute to take a shower. I tried to convince him to wait until after the duty-officer’s tour of the hall. Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a c***d and then, by his absence, left the c***d fatherless and then Godless.The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and.