I watched entranced as she strutted around the stage removing bits of her silky costume to the throbbing heavy beat music. Her attention to the pole w...s enticing, the way her long muscular legs wrapped around it as she twirled and danced. Every once in a while she would coyly look at one of the patrons in the audience and drop to her knees standing up very slowly while caressing and licking that hard chrome pole like it was a guys elongated cock. I was enchanted by her beauty and grace. At the. ”He just smiled and placed the baby, his baby back in its cradle.Two years later Ted was transferred for work to the city and I haven’t seen him or Shirley since. I miss her even today years later.Now back to Ron. He was very happy with his new woman. They married and once more I was his best man. This was a different wedding. For a short time, he and I were alone at the wedding so I said to him, “what time do you want me to come over to the honeymoon suite, Ron.”He just laughed and replied.. What about her?”“Well, Ms. Schroeder ... what about her?”“She was quite the little actress in high school, you know, talented both musically and physically,” Carol asked with a giggle in her voice. “Is this the same Carol Knight you are currently on stage with in WEST SIDE STORY, SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS, and I hear, DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST?”“Well, Ms. Schroeder, to be perfectly honest, yes, it is. My sister Carol is one of the most talented actresses to ever come out of La Cienega. At the open gate Jefferson pulled the faded, gray wagon into the shade of a weeping willow near a dried up brook. The three of them listened. Insects whirred and a faint breeze rustled the dry leaves. Seth walked out into the middle of the worn, hard-surfaced road on stiff legs. He could not see anything out of the ordinary.He had expected cavalry patrols racing back and forth or Imboden's scouts trotting by or somebody looking excited. Maybe they are already attacking the city, he thought, and.