Charlie: Nice place here; how many are you?Tom: I live here aloneCharlie: Tom, I have to go and need my money.Tom: No, I’ll be right down one minute... It’s now 12:30 AM and I’m dam hungry now. I can’t go to Paul’s at this time; it’s late and he is sleeping. Charlie just graduated from college a year before me and I wonder...Charlie: Do you have the money?Tom: Just a second; am I your last delivery?Charlie: YeahTom: So that means your boss already subtracted this pie and paid you before you. She pulled up her shirt to reveal a large dragon going down her side, the head obviously hidden under her shorts. ‘This was my first,’ she offered. ‘So you didn’t just walk into a tattoo shop a little buzzed and pick a cute little butterfly off the wall. You went ‘all-in’ from the start.’ ‘Yeah, that’s my style,’ Tracy laughed. ‘Hey, I don’t think I ever told you how much I liked The Buffalo Hunter.’ ‘You read that book?’ ‘Yeah, it was really good, really incredibly intense.’ ‘I know,. “Anyway, as you can see, marriage will not be abolished, merely transformed, while monogamy will be a thing of the past. No longer would girls wait until the third date for fear of being labeled sluts. The term ‘slut’ would be a compliment, not a pejorative. Public nudity would be rampant, as would sexy clothing, and legal issues regarding rape and sexual harassment would be moot. Promiscuity would be so widespread that no one would think twice about people screwing in public, nor worry about. ”I nodded, “I do. You have to keep your word. I’ve suffered the consequences of doing that twice. Both times with the same girl. And both times shoving a dagger into Kara’s heart.”“You? But you have pretty much complete freedom!”“Not with Becky. Never with Becky.”“Ben van Hoek’s kid? The one you dated briefly in High School?”“That’s the one. But it wasn’t as brief as has been implied. It’s a long, long story of me being a ‘dumb boy’ as Stephanie always alleged.”“So why tell me now? Am I.