After I was there an hour her husband Bobcame home from work. He also had a disinterested look about him, and Iwondered if I had come to the wrong pla...e. They made a great show offeeling and took me to a very nice restaurant for dinner, so the eveningwasn't completely a wash. I was surprised when Millie phoned me a few weeks later: "Annie,something's come up I think will interest you." So I came by.It turns out that Millie had come across a cache of girl-clothes inBob's drawer, and she didn't. ” I turned to the pair. “Thanks, guys.”“No problem,” Lenny said. “Anything to help you create another hot scene like the last one.”Other guys started coming into the room. I glanced at Rick. “Am I allowed to socialize.”“Hell, yes,” he said. “You’re the guest of honor. You can do whatever the hell you want.” I grinned and began to mingle. I had flirted with half the men in the room and felt more than a couple bulges before Rick motioned for me to join him back by the pool table.“All right, guys!. Thepeculiar bend of a particular tree sparkling with leaves, a certain queerslant of light off a pond, a rusted oil drum where stray cats had made amakeshift home. You were more a part of the world around you. You noticedthings like the grade of a road, the lay of the land. In a car you coulddrive through a neighborhood a thousand times and if you were asked youmight off-handedly say the landscape was flat. On a bicycle, however, youwould notice that it wasn't flat at all. You'd feel the strain. ”Okay, you go ahead and I will leave a last cold beer by the bed for you. Thanks for you all your hard work today; you are the man of the house these days.”I went to the bathroom to shower. Luckily there were only a couple of bathroom boxes and I easily found a wash cloth, towels, and body wash. I also found some summer’s eve of my mom’s. I put it on the counter so she could find it easy if she wanted it. I showered in water as hot as I could take in and the whole room filled with steam. After.