Today I have canceled all other students and "closed" shop. I have only one student now. Well, when I say one, I mean one entourage.Tess showed up yes...erday on time as usual. This time, she was wearing that same little dress she wore the first time we met. But, she also had a friend with her. "I hope you don't mind, I had to bring my boyfriend along. This is John." I was instantly disappointed. I had imagined all along that Tess was gay, at least bi, but certainly single. That she was available. When you find what you love you are seldom, if ever, bored. My pottery teacher said something to me that I never forgot. “Though I am a master, when I look at a piece of clay I am a beginner.” When I told Tollie that, he said that he’d learned that about poetry. I did the same thing that Tollie did when he dropped out of the PhD program to write poetry. I didn’t go back to college the following fall and came home and for a while, shared his apartment, but we also spent a lot of time in the big. He also had to learn how to go to the grocery storeand get the supplies himself and to pay for them with the money heearned doing various jobs around the neighborhood, or with the money hegot from his sister. He also learned how to use a credit card. Hissister gave him one to use to get food when she wanted him to go.He sighed relief after his sister left and he quickly shut the door andlocked the dead bolt. Ah, he would have the entire night to himself,now. He made plans for the whole night. ...... Mark found himself walking down the streets of his hometown, wondering if he should contact his sister Emily. They hadn't seen each other or been in contact for about 11 years because of a family quarrel, which had divided their loyalties.He was in town on a business trip for his Company, of which he was the Managing Director. He only knew that Emily still lived here because his mother had mentioned it to him when he told her that he would be visiting there.Oh well, he thought, she can.