That changed on my friend Melodia’s thirtieth birthday. The four of us were together again, celebrating on a Friday night at a jazz bar downtown. We...were all single for the first time in two years. Melodia had been the last with a steady ‘other,’ that relationship ending only four weeks earlier. The woman was short, blonde like me, and rounder than my frame, but I knew she was pretty even without the makeup. She wrote columns for a music magazine and website, and it often had her going out of. He'd lost someone. I'd worn that look myself, for a long time after Audry was killed by the drunk driver. I don't like drunk drivers. Kelly didn't remember her mom. She'd been only three, twenty two years ago.Kelly went and checked on Bill and Bob, sitting in their usual seats in the middle of the counter. Bob asked for their check, and Kelly wrote it out.Then she went over to the new guy, and got his attention.Bill and Bob got up and went to settle at the cash. Bob gave her a five and told her. My business being of such a nature that I could very well allow it to be taken care of by trusty subordinates, I had plenty of time and money at my disposal, and to afford me to exercise my sensual pleasures to the full, and as the reader will have seen in the earlier portion of this narrative, I lived only for the gratification of my sensual whimsies.In a couple of days the time arrived for my appointment with the two charming girls, and I ordered Joseph to have the car at my call and at the. Many of the kids in her class were too afraid to slide down the pole at first. A few of the toughest boys were the only ones to slide the first day. They all gave each other high-fives after they landed. More and more kids would join each day, until Meghan was sure she was the only one that hadn’t slid down the red pole. There’s no way I could ever go down that thing, she had thought. But here I am… Two of her best friends had come over to her just a few minutes before and asked if she wanted.