’ John closed the window and led Laurie up the stair to the master suite. He sat down in his T shirt and shorts, soccer shorts with a draw string an... she pulled her new and slightly starchy robe closed as she settled on the couch next to John. John leaned over and rested his head on Laurie’s shoulder, whispering into her hair as he nuzzled her neck. ‘Laurie, I love you… I really do love you…’ Laurie felt protected in his embrace and held him tightly. She loved this man so much, loved the way he. Not an aphrodisiac, not exactly. There’s a lot of talk about what love is, partly because it’s a lot of things. Or gets used a lot of ways. Between two adults it should mean putting your center outside yourself, putting someone else’s interests up with yours or ahead of them. And this way I could know what a women wanted to hear or to do or to have done to her. This meant that for a woman, as long as we were together and the potion worked, I was the perfect lover. And she was a very. I understood her concern and the love that went into itand promised that I would not forget again. We made sure that we bothfully knew what each signal meant. For my part I thanked Claire again forher intense love to take me to those physical, mental and spiritualplaces where incredible releases happened and gave me such inner peace.After breakfast Claire took me up to our room, stripped me of my gown andput me in the sensory deprivation hood, manacled my hands and led me downto the basement.. "Why is it indispensable?" Igwanda asked."Yes." That question you must pose to those who are the instigators of the violence you so deplore," the colonel said. "In my role as a soldier I was the reactor, not the actor—or the agent of reaction, at any event. I said that I regret the deaths I have caused, and so I do; but I do not at all regret the elimination of the threats presented by those who were killed." But there must be some better way to remove those threats," Johanssen protested..