..what she had witnessed the night before had all but driven her over the brink. At this point she was just downright bawdy. Up to now she thought she...had managed the absence of a man in her life with a reasonable amount of decorum. Now that she was confronted daily by unrestrained sexual activity her sense of decency and modesty was in shreds.The was no avoiding it out here in the heart of the country. As you strolled along its country lanes and byways one couldn't look over a fence without. The 23-year old German artist was in love with the desert southwest, and found that she could overstay her tourist visa as long as Jim wanted her managing the company’s desert ranch guest house. She and I laughed good-naturedly at her clumsy, but generous, man. ‘I don’t know how to go about that. The only women that I see are in my work place, and I don’t need a sexual harassment case. I was disgusted when I found that guy in Receiving doing, you know… I canned him and had that consultant draw. She knew she wasn't the smartest girl. She'd barely passed high school and hadn't been able to achieve a scholarship. The only thing she'd really been good at was being fit and pretty.Being fit went a long way, but the rest was covered by Tia being a petite little thing with 'cute' (gag) elfin features. She didn't quite reach five feet but a lot of guys seemed to like that. Unfortunately Jacob didn't always seem to be one of them. He'd drop the occasional comment about the huge height disparity. "Let's just talk about that." she said, glad to have picked one topic that could be explored, and which might be less unsettling than she had previously thought.So they did, disregarding the fact that it was getting later and later. Ramona wasn't tired, and she was fascinated by what she was hearing from her children. It sounded to her like a carbon copy of what she and Robert had done when they were young ... younger even than these two.For their part, as the children realized she wasn't going.