With her talent, she had been in great demand, singing at weddings, church, parties, even doing the national anthem at the home football games.When th...y were alone at the rock, their special place, she seemed to sound her best. She loved to sing and would sing to him for hours. He believed she was putting extra effort into her songs just to show her deep love. The power of her voice made the rock with its natural beauty feel like pure heaven.Needless to say, she won the talent show. 'I wasn't. No wonder the girls screamed, he thought with a smile, I’d hate to have that thing poked into me.He showered after the first JV game, beating down his hard-on and ignoring his teammates’ stares, and climbed up in the stands to watch the varsity, getting praise for scoring a dozen points and making both of his foul shots, a skill he was famously weak in. Nancy came and sat beside him. She patted his thigh. “I’ve gone out with Jack five times now. I talked my folks into it. He’s a nice guy, very. "Well, young lady, it seems like there's yet another young girl in thiscountry who tried to play football but wasn't good enough for the team.How does it feel to really, truly be one of us now?" She passed me adrink: 4 ounces of Scotch. I chugged it."Is it always this hard to play like a girl?" I needed her wisdom."Sweetie, it isn't. Playing like a girl is easy! It's fun!" She sippedher sangria."What's hard," she said grimly, as though she was remembering somepainful incident in her past, "are. And Molly more than qualifies for a starring role in my dental fantasies. She has a round, friendly face, nicely framed by short-cropped brown hair. There seems to be a little bit of devil in her deep-dimpled grin, and she has a wicked sense of humor to go with it. She likes to talk while she works, and I had learned a lot about her by just lying in the chair listening. She quickly, and openly, brought me up to date on her personal life. She had been married for four years, her husband sold.