The short of it is I answered an ad on craigslist.However, something of this magnitude rarely has a short explanation. Soget comfortable. This is gonn... take a while.I'd been lurking on the craigslist personals boards for a while. A longwhile. It was January 2012 when I answered the ad. Actually, it was thethird or fourth ad I answered. You go thru a few before you get aresponse. I call him Dodge guy. We emailed back and forth for a week thenstarted texting one another. It was my first foray. We’ll never have this chance again. I’ll be married in a few hours…then it will be too late…we can’t ever…’ Jake silenced her words with his mouth and carried the love of his life to the bed. It was like magic for both of them as they explored each other like two teenagers discovering one another for the first time. It was certainly astounding sex but it was so much more as, exhausted, they fell asleep in each others arms exchanging the tears of a love that would end at sun rise and could never. It was, Gerald found out, the same hospital that operated the TB sanitarium his father worked in during the Korean conflict and had a large wing that was considered a mental hospital. The medical facility was painted white throughout. Gray tile paved the hallways giving the impression of a stark black and white photograph of a hospital from another age. The people housed in its wards were mostly indigents who could not afford medical care. They were the people that Gerald’s family had sometimes. It felt like no time at all had passed before the chiming of the clock let her know it was time for dinner.For the first time in quite a while, Rose was impatient to finish dinner, but she forced herself to maintain her dignity and delicacy, as she knew a proper lady should. Upon finishing, she asked to be excused, although it was customary for her and The Beast to talk after dinner. He raised an eyebrow, but assented, and she rushed to the library to retrieve Miss Austen’s tale and bear it.