She smiled because she knew exactly what the virginal eighteen year old girl was harboring in the recesses of her schoolgirl mind.“Boys!”It was al... too familiar to young girls in these days of hedonistic looseness of conventional restraint. The mores of society were bent in every direction by the urges of the flesh. Of course, the guilt imposed by religious pressures and the scandal of outraged society effectively reduced the overt expression of flexible morals in most fledgling females, but. Ryan texted her about swim practice.Technically, Mr. Ryan wasn’t her coach anymore since she’d be changing schools in September. He wasn’t officially her history teacher anymore, either, but he’d been so nice to offer to help her keep up with her swimming practice during the summer. She knew it had as much to do with the fact that he liked seeing her in her swimsuit as anything else, but he was always nice to her and very good looking too. Plus, he was a good coach. She hadn’t even let him see. .yes people change as well as things. I arrived home from college last week...even though I wanted to stay back there and continue my education while on break I decided it was time to come home. I have been gone awhile and I wanted to see what was all left of this former life of mine. So I got in and immediately got a hold of my old friends who were still around...of course I called my family first and found out the new and olds of my city. So in that I spent most of my time with them. The. Oh yes, and Elerie is pronounced El-lair-ie with the stress on the ‘lair’.Enjoy.There’s Gold in Them Thar HillsIt’s a movie cliché, the dusty old prospector comes in to town, with his mule, yelling ‘there’s gold in them thar hills’ and goes into the saloon. He invariably loses his poke in a crooked game and gets shot. Which movie? Was it ever in any movie? I don’t know, but there are so many things that we think happened in movies, which didn’t happen, that it just might have.It wasn’t quite.