. her way. That’s a tidal wave of feeling that was overwhelming to you, and in the end, you were honest with me, just as I was with you.“Look, I a...preciate the offer. I don’t expect to ever take you up on it, but I appreciate it. It shows a great deal of selflessness on your part and a willingness to risk the scorn and contempt of society, to risk wearing the cuckold’s horns and whatever else society would say of you. You’re a better man than they’ll ever be, just as your sister and I are. She is so happy. She has even beendieting along with me and has lost five lbs. herself. In just the rightplaces. Her voluptuous curves have become even more sensual and she hasflaunted her figure to show me what is desired of her son. I will losethose thirty additional lbs. and be the soft clay, ready to be moldedinto the curvy figure Mother desires her son to have. Mother is a hell ofrole model.Since I am losing so much weight, so fast, Mother has hired aTailor/Dressmaker to be on constant. ’ I felt slightly ungrateful because his voice sounded so soft and caring and, of course, he’d made the effort to prepare a meal despite his own depression.‘Is it okay if I come in?’ he asked. ‘I don’t want to infringe on your privacy but I think we should start talking to each other. We wander in and out of the house like total strangers. I don’t think that’s very healthy.’I nodded and sat upright on my bed, folded my arms across my knees and pulled them up to my chest.‘Shall I put the light. He felt justified, too, when he arrived for the funeral service, under the dark and threatening sky. There weren't all that many umbrellas and all-weather coats, Father Tom saw, a pretty-typical turnout of about forty people or so.There were two people in Army uniforms in the audience, two Enlisted, and there was a formation of Navy Enlisted in all-weather coats. There were a few Navy officers, too, standing toward the rear of the gathering. The girlfriend was there, too. The next of kin was.