Pour your heart out to me, put your trust and faith in me, and all that you want can be yours. You exist for no higher purpose than to be overwhelmed...by my generosity. You spend most of your nights shut away from the world. You keep yourself safe in your home behind your secure fences and reinforced, dead bolted doors. The mat on your doorstep may say "welcome," but that mat is a lie, isn't it? Isn't your home decorated with bars and chains and other ornaments that say, not "welcome," but. With practice his voice becamethinner and took on a wider range of inflections. I still rememberthe first time he used the words "sweet" and "darling" and"precious" in a single sentence. He was describing a cute-lookingmovie star pictured in one of his women's magazines, and I wasamused that he was referring with those words not to her appearanceor her figure but to her matching skirt and sweater. Of course I still had a living to earn, and clients who needed myattention, and Jim still had. "I gave one of the guys a blowjob at the office party," Helen said proudly. "Years?" Jackie shook her head. "And it was just a blowjob?" "When was the last time you had sex?" Cathy asked. "Fuck that," Jackie said as she sat up holding her knees together looking over at her friend. "When was the last time you got fucked?" Again everyone had their eyes on Helen. Helen thought carefully about it. "Oh come on?" Jackie shouted. "When was the last time for you?" Helen shouted back. "Just over an hour. He was a little confused about using hippopotamuses or hippopotami but he was quite sure that they were in Africa because his mama told him so.His mama was never wrong.Unfortunately, she did not want to get into the discussion about what to call two or more hippos when using a plural to describe them accurately.Even though Harry had never seen an Octopus, he was certain Octopuses was the correct way to refer to multiple Octopus creatures. Then, along came the “know it all” schoolteacher.