...........The morning of the 8th July was dull and overcast with rain forecast forlater in the day. I was up bright and early as there was much prepa...ationto do. Yesterday had involved get my body totally smooth all the hairremoved from every inch of my body. Clare had spent some time shaping myeyebrows and had even insisted a few days before in piercing my ears.Clare had been true to her word and had picked me up enough skirts,blouses, two pairs of trousers, a dress, 3 pairs of shoes and. I had already turned 16 but was still too young to smoke cigarettes, drink beer, or even check out an adult book from the library. Now, when I say an “adult” book, I don’t mean it was like a dirty book. No, they were just the ordinary books that ordinary people read like “David Copperfield”. They were real strict in those days and minors were supposed to stay in the children’s section under penalty of having their library card confiscated.I knew this was “rent” day and my mom was a few bucks. "This is way cool!" I suspect Jake might have been just as impressed but he didn't show it.Then I got a big surprise.There's a light that flashes on the pool deck when someone enters the house. Care to guess where we spend most of our time? Particularly in the daylight hours? Anyway, Mom's voice called out, "Susan? We're out on the deck." Off we went.And I liked to die! There was Mom and Jean Collins sunning themselves naked on the deck. And Gram was with them! Also naked.Mom rushed over to. In fact, most recently, one man bitched at me because his estranged husband, yes, they were a gay couple, had shut off his electricity to avoid paying the bill. Now, that was pretty low, and I had to read the offending party the Riot Act, even though the victim had been cheating on him with his ex,” I laughed in spite of myself.“I can only imagine,” Larissa snickered at hearing about that case, “He must have been extremely steamed at his husband to do that to him!”“Trust me, though, straight.