Not a bad experience, not at all.Just as we were about to go to the boat my parents arrived. I had forgotten I had called them. We exchanged hugs, I i...troduced Sarah, and we all went to fetch Carrie and Mike. Mom simply grabbed Mike, crying on his shoulder, thanking him for taking care of her babies, and expressing her sorrow over his parents.He told us about the memorial service, and they said they’d love to attend, but they didn’t have a place to stay and needed to get back. Mike had asked me. Can we do that now?”“Denise, are you really sure you can stand that? Did your therapist say you could do petting safely?”“Ummm, she did say that I could now go as far as I could stand, and I know ... oh this is so terrible of me, I don’t want to say it...”“Denise, say it. It’s hurting you and you need to get it out in the open.”“No, it’s not about me, it’s you.”“Me? Nothing you say can hurt me—uh, unless it’s that you don’t wanna be my girlfriend. Now that would hurt me lots.”She made a shaky. " No need to thank me. Christy threatened me. She told me if I didn't get up she would do bad things to my breakfast the next time I came in."That was the first time I'd ever spoken to Candy. Up till then she was just another one of the regulars you saw and just nodded a hello to.Maybe six months went by and when I'd come into the restaurant Christy would tell me that I had just missed Candy and I would scold her for not calling me at work so I could hurry on down. Or she would tell me that. She and Latoya talked about things that prisoners talk about. "Latoya," Yeony stammered. "What do you do about, er, you know?" About what?" I haven't had a man since I've been here. What do you do? I mean besides your fingers?" Hell, girl. Ain't nothing we can do. Used to be we could get favors out of the male guards for giving them some ass. You know, give and take? But now that they only allow female guards here, we don't get none any which way. Fucking puritan bastards don't even let us have.