.." ... that kind of girl?"I chuckled. "Exactly." I knew those girls, and I didn't like them. They were exploitive, used their sex to get things from ...he boys. Actually, I'd had about a dozen lovers by the time I graduated, usually about three or four at any one time; I like variety. But looking like a good girl and flashing you was fun. Only, it made it harder." How? It made me hard enough."She chuckled in her turn. "For a while I tried to find a way to show you my pussy, but even when I. I didn't reply."Well, then, go. I understand the need. I do. And," she began, and then paused, "I'm glad it's not with another woman. I was sure it was! I was sure it was with some other woman who's prettier, and healthier, than me! I could understand that. I really could. But---I'm glad it's not with another woman. That's easier for me to accept. It's not the same with another man. This other guy doesn't threaten me, as another woman would." I don't want to hurt you, okay?" I said. "It's just. My Wolfcraft came dangerously close to the local star, 800,000 clicks closer than I wanted to be and my fighters engines screamed to get out of the gravitational pull, my shields where bombarded with heat and radiation as I passed through a protuberance of superheated stellar plasma, the system warned.” Shields at forty percent.”Instead of fighting the stars gravitational force I changed course slightly and used it to accelerate me even more and I became so fast approaching the second carrier. You gotta live in reality. I learned something from your Uncle Ray after the divorce,” George invoked the image of Jerome’s favorite maternal uncle and former professional football player.“What’s that pops,” Jerome thought of the man who seemed perfect in every way and was still married to his high school sweetheart with no illegitimate c***dren. “His life is damn near perfect.”“Damn near, but not quite. He invited me to meet him for a weekend in Dallas maybe six months or so after the split..