To this day we remain very good friends. * * * After that, I dated three or four guys until I met Gonzalo, he was ten years older than me, he owned hi... own business and he was very handsome. We dated for about four or five months before he asked me to marry him. He had always treated me good, and we had a good time both in and out of bed, so I agreed. We set the date for the wedding a couple of months after the day he gave me the engagement ring. We began having sex on our third date. Gonzalo. ..” She lowered her volume and dropped an octave. “ ... at what ... I was doing with Brianna, right? And...” She grew a tad more tentative. “And what Taylor was doing to ... doing with me ... it wasn’t anything you haven’t done a gazillion times, right? So—’’I cut her off, chopping my right hand down in a tomahawk move.“No, Faye ... it wasn’t the sex you were having—it’s that you were having sex, and you shouldn’t have been doing it, DAMMIT!”She didn’t like that at all. She tried to. "Come on kids those two are awake now. Let them get up while we make turkey sandwiches." Penny ushered them out the door.Ed was still clutching Sally when she said, "Only in my dreams have I ever had a day like today. It makes me so happy I could cry." I wouldn't want you to cry, but I'm glad you have had a happy day. I'm also glad that I could give it to you."Sally turned over and faced Ed and leaned into him and gently gave him a kiss. "Thank you, Ed. You are a special person." Pulling away. It took me a while, but I finally came to the realization that Joan just missed male company. The fact of having been raped simply kept most men away from her. I felt that attitude was about as stupid as could be found among all of the human foibles, but I could not change a culture all by myself. In any case, I really enjoyed spending time with Joan, and she seemed to feel the same way about me.By the time supper approached, we were sitting in the veranda swing as close together as two humans.