He rubs the material between his thumb and forefinger, trying to remember what she looked like that night.Or was it afternoon?His mind begins to wande... to the minutiae.The toe nails painted ox blood red; the shapely legs which seem to go on forever when she's half naked; the firm thighs; the cloud of russet between him and bliss; the almost-flat planes of her stomach; the full breasts with their firm, peaked nipples; the arms, more than strong enough to hold him at bay or hold him close; the. Com/f/mine.jpg A barefoot and almost naked boy about 13 or so was tied by a thick rope around his waist to a wheeled cart loaded with coal. He had to crawl painfully on his hands and feet thorough a low dark passage in the mine pulling the heavy load. The boy's agony aroused Dave and he relived this scene over and over again in that basement by stripping to his Levis, tying a rope from a heavy weight that he could barely drag to his waist then for an hour or more dragging that heavy weight. I will leave it up to you to decide. You havesix days until new years."We end up watching some chick flick movies that are so popular atChristmas time on television.Before I go, she says, "I have one thing to ask you. Can you staydressed until New Years? You don't need to see anybody, but then youwill have a trial time. When everybody arrives for your party, you candecide whether to be Beth or Bill." I will either have a bachelorneighbor, or a BFF neighbor.I reluctantly agree to this.I go. The large room was circular with bleacher style seating, except instead of uncomfortable bleachers there were rows of comfy chairs. They circle the whole room going three tiers high. The seat where filled with people of every ethnicity and they all watched as Anthony and the other four moved into the open center of the room. In the ceiling of the building was a large skylight. They were not offered chairs so with a wave of his hand Anthony created a comfortable chair that swiveled for each of.