I just hope that sometime, maybe like when she’s eighteen, you’ll stop praising her for actions that would have been praiseworthy at eight.”“Y...ur generosity, dear, at least the generosity I praised, was not in letting Cat play with your doll, but leaving it here instead of taking it to Philadelphia to entice her into a visit.”“We, although we would be glad to see you,” Charles said,” don’t really have room in the apartment to be adequate hosts. And we’re probably stuck there until my student. . What did you use on me?”“Uh uh! Not on the phone! You were just fucked up and your naturally sexy self – that’s my story and I’m sticking to it!” Ramon insisted.“Yeah, okay. But it’s weird – I don’t think it would have gone down that well, even if I was straight and there as a volunteer!”“Eh, maybe not. You were pretty mellow. Forgive and forget – mostly forget!” Ramon chuckled. “Hey, what does your roommate look like? Maybe we should introduce ourselves, eh?”“NO FUCKING WAY!” Diane. Heroes don’t know they are until it’s over ... truly over. After the adrenalin wears off and the shakes quit ... then the hero says to himself... Well ... That was stupid. You idiot! Almost got us killed.I suppose that the true hero ... the guy who knows and does it anyway ... gets acclimated to doing stupid dumb shit. It’s training. Training says, We do it THIS way. And he does it THAT way over and over until muscle memory takes over.I didn’t have any of that.I didn’t know the centerfold of. Truthfully, I never thought anything would come of it since I was too scared to ever do anything and just chalked it up to yet another opportunity I would never take. There are days when I wish the opportunity would have never presented itself, but what is life without experiences? Though the emptiness in my heart feels like a spike, pounding deeper with every beat, I would not take away one minute of happiness or sadness since it was one more minute I spent with you. Closing my eyes, I am.