It was nearly midnight when I decided to return to my dorm. There were no students in sight as I took the grassy, tree-filled path to cut right across...to my dormitory. A sudden scream halted my steps. I spun around trying to find out where it had come from. Another scream alerted me to the source and I bolted towards it. Someone's in trouble, I thought. She needs my help! I sprinted through the field as the soft blades of grass crushed under my shoes and the wind whooshed past my ears.. I do sleep with other women after all.”“I guess so,” Miranda replied, thinking that if anything, she was the one who had been something that she wasn’t.“Besides,” Syd added as the corner of her smile lifted up just a little, “I kind of liked the idea of people thinking we were lovers - even if it wasn’t real.”“Is that why you said yes?” Miranda asked, thinking of men she had accompanied to social functions in the past for the same reason.Syd took a long minute, seeming to consider the question,. If it's any comfort to you, you will probably never even know if such a thing does happen." But maybe I should join this group anyway," he said. "Maybe since I'm meant to do that I should go ahead and do it." Maybe," I agreed. "But it won't be the same. Being an advocate was a frustrating, agonizing process for you and Mom. Trying to get anything done was like trying to erode a rock by spitting on it. The only thing that kept you going year after year was your grief and anger over Tracy's. "My parents and me..." She shrugged as she stared into the knot in the wood on the table and looked up at me with red, puffy eyes. " ... they said I was disgusting and threw me out." Our eyes met and she squeezed her bag tight to her waist."Where are you staying?" Rebecca asked.My mind was a blur; as naïve as it sounds, it simply didn't occur to me what the consequences of uncomplicated and unsafe sex would be. I had taken advantage of the young lady that night and she was living with the.