There was no need to tell them what we'd purchased. Our smilesand demeanor gave us away instantly. "Did we miss the wedding of our only children?" Mom...asked. Aunt Aliceseemed threatened somehow by the little bits of gold. Sam replied andtold them both that they were just "friendship rings". As obvious a lieas it was, it seemed to calm Aunt Alice down quite a bit. Mom asked tosee my ring. I held my hand out for her inspection. She laughed. "Take itoff and let me look at it," she said. I slid it. "I know!" I held up a hand. "Let's not argue, OK? You know I DO care about you. It's BECAUSE I care about you that I care about your sex life too, Jill. I'm tremendously honored that you chose me to be your first. But that's something you can only give away one time, and when you go to college and find some great guy who knocks your socks off, it would have been really nice to be able to give him that gift. But you can't now. That's all I was trying to say. We let things get out of control, and. "No! Feel free." I said. "It's another thing I hide from my Mom. She hates it." said Valerie. "Mmmmm... Just curious. Anything else, you keep from your Mom?" I said with a big smile. "Ha Ha...Oh I bet you like to know. Maybe! Can I ask you a question first?" said Valerie. "Oh...things just got interesting. Sure you can ask me anything. But just one question. Then you tell me a big secret. Something your Mom does not approve of." I said. "MMMm..I really can't think of a question. Can you just. Two weeks later another city prostitute turned up dead. I found out about it at around six-thirty at night when Dana, who was indeed keeping me up to date with the serial killer case, called and informed me that some guy named Walton 'Willy' Weeks had just walked into the downtown LAPD sub-station and told them he had stumbled across a dead body after taking a prostitute into some alley to get himself a blow job in trade for a couple of bucks and some smack. Dana also told me that after Weeks.