Never had goosebumps so strong in my life.At last, we were crowned with a wreath of flowers. A few parting wordsand the women around us vanished. As i... they were ghosts that departedour world again. All I could think that it was amazing how far practicalspecial effects had come. I vowed to ask my sister later how they hadmanaged that.When we walked back to the car I was on an all-time high.Forgotten the dreadful months before.My sisters plan to cheer me up had worked to the T.At last, I was. ”Standing there in just his flimsy dress and thong made him feel stark naked. His exposed body seemed to dangle from the glowing hook of his blazing head.One of his pale, pink-nailed hands grasped at the surrounding air as the other reached for his throat. He gagged in panic. Would he faint – sink into darkness; fall to the floor?Strong hands caught him.He swallowed hard, trying to gather the floating cloud of particles his body had become. His eyes panned along faces and tables and chairs and. You see, that pretty girl was obviously an angel, as she was so pretty, so smart, and so ... just good. How could I deserve to spend time with an angel, much less be an angel’s boyfriend? She made me smile every time I saw her, although...”“Stop, stop, stop. Stop! STOP! I can’t take it. I’m not all that. I’m a somewhat clueless girl who’s trying to find her way through a morass of feelings, longings, and pubescence and love and sex and friendship and girls and boys and ... and ... incredible. “And you will again – and if I wasn’tmarried I would be first in the queue for you…”“Bill!” Judy cut me short. “You shouldn’t say that.Let’s change the subject.” We changed the subject andtwenty minutes later Mandy left. Judy summed up: “I think she’ll be back.”She did come back, and somehow over the next couple ofweeks the subject of sex came up in every conversation,and Judy and I talked as explicitly and.