The previous mayor embezzled from the city employees’ pension fund, and we have an obligation to repay that. We’re in the process of figuring out ...ow we’ll do that without having to raise property and/or sales taxes. There’s talk of shutting down the libraries, public pools, and the like. If we do that, Duke’s not going to be very popular,” she admitted.I noticed that he took the blame when anything went wrong. And I realized that my grandma was using an old political trick: suggest the closure. When the concert finished, we headed back to Taft and the guys came to my room to hang out. We listened to music and talked until just after 1:00am and the girls hadn’t returned, and then the guys all headed to bed.May 11, 1985, McKinley, OhioOn Saturday morning I called Liz, my grandparents, and parents to remind them about our family dinner with the Kozlovs at the Country Club on Sunday afternoon.“How are things between Paul and Dad?” I asked when I spoke to Liz, whom I called first.“No. She turned red from embarrassment almost immediately. Something she hadn’t realized until she was undressed, and it had been the same way yesterday, was her nipples stiffened and her vagina was starting to get moist. ‘Could she actually be getting aroused by stripping in front of all these boys’ she wondered. The warning bell rang and she put the thought away for the moment.As the warning bell had already gone off, she wasn’t stopped for requests and was able to get to her history class on time. ”He looked at me intently. “Just how strongly do you still feel about those things? Was it the flush of just having sex or is it still with you?”I stared into his eyes. I could pretend and be frustrated by trying to deal with it on my own or I can be honest with him again and hear what is churning in his brain. That wasn’t even a choice. I had already opened myself up to him, I had confessed my despairs and followed that with my desires that society might say are supposed to be.