"Thank you, but..." But not right now?"I stared down at my bare toes, wriggling them in the thick pile of thepale-violet bathroom rug. Hearing Terri f...nish my thoughts was a littlescary. The only other person who'd known me well enough to do that wasmy mom.Terri lifted my chin until we were eye to eye again. "Don't worry,Bobby." Her warm smile made me feel silly for feeling scared. "Whateveris going on, I'm sure it'll work out somehow. In the meantime, youbetter hurry up getting ready or you'll. " We chatted more after dinner while also half watching TV. Finally it was late so I we each headed to our own rooms.In the guest room, I decided to put some of my clothes in the closet and dresser drawers. After putting some of my clothes on some extra clothes hangers she had, I opened the top dresser drawer. She had left several of her bras in that drawer. So I looked in the second one and found some of her panties. The bottom drawer had a few pairs of socks.For some reason, my words from. Dad picked her up and they left about 11:30 they came home mom was tipsy and dad helped her into the house. As they sat on the couch mom kept going on and on about how she really had a good time and wanted to do it again. Dad just smiled and I excused myself and went to bed mom went to change and dad kicked back on the couch. I left my door open as I often did and saw mom walk by in a new nighty that had the nipples cut out and no panties on. She went back to the living room and I could hear. Looking back on it years later, though, he realized that the accident set in motion events that made his life far better than he could possibly imagine.He was seven at the time, too young to be familiar with death, some would say too young to be allowed to experience it. But he did experience it, and he found himself alone for the first time in his life, sad and scared and naked to all the bad emotions of the world.Fortunately, he had an aunt and uncle who took pity on him and took him in..