"Val had bought the 'special outfit' two days earlier when shopping with her sister, Heather. Heather had told her it was too daring, but Val had laug...ed and happily made the purchase, saying, "I'll bet it's worth every penny." Well I want to hear if it is," her sister had replied.Val flushed with happiness on hearing Joe's compliment to her carefully selected outfit, said, "Thanks Joe, I don't know why I put this on today. I just felt like a change. It's nice occasionally to try something new. Some of the others came with friends: found something they were looking for and moved on. Some came and stayed. I don’t mean stayed here specifically; they just keep coming back. Others like those in the pool, and you, were brought in by the professors as sort of special cases: I guess you could call them students,” Thumper explained. “And of course there are the weekend thrill seekers. They show up when the mood strikes them and change a lot, new ones coming and old ones dropping away.” “Did. It is all innocent and fun and free. And it was another of my triggers for remembering my darkest incident of my life.I can feel the tears start to form. Here I am. A man of 53 years. Brought to tears by a simple song.There were many tears in our lives that year.Sure, I can write about the neighborhood. The boys and girls running around and playing until dark was coming. Carefree and no worries about strangers lurking in the shadows. They were there. They just hadn't visited our lives yet.No, I. “Good, because it’s true,” I said as I stared back into her mesmerizing eyes and opened myself to her, hoping that she could see that I was being genuine.She gave me a shaky smile and then dropped my hand and turned towards the cars. I watched as she wiped the single tear, and I could tell that she was pulling herself together and that whatever moment that we’d just had was gone.“Look at me, getting all silly! It must be close to my period, which makes me all wacky. Come on, let’s get the stuff.