" Brooke took her fingers from between Jamie s legs and Bob was quickly unbuckling his pants with his step daughter's help."Brooke! It s your dad! I c...n t do anything like that." As Bob pulled his trousers down to his ankles he said, "She's not my child biologically, not even adopted. Anyway, we won t do anything you don t want to do," said Bob trying to set the woman at ease. He knew she was in no position to refuse his sexual advances now that she had been caught inflagrante with his. We were going to make the best of the time that she did have, and in the end, everything would work out okay. She was adamant in this belief when we first found out. But the pages in her diary told a different story.Disbelief. My mom had been in utter disbelief over the entire situation. I learned that she'd secretly gone to two other specialists in the same week, looking for different opinions. They both told her that the cancer was too advanced. Any treatment she could have sought likely. " Never thought about it? How could you watch that and not think about it?"Sue said, "Well, yeah... I guess I thought about it, I did kind of wonder what it would be like but I could never do that."Jan said, "Why not. The wine and grass have me feeling pretty good and how bout you, you want to give it a try and see how far we go?"Sue said, "I don't know."Sue looked over at Dave but he didn't say anything. I thought to myself, 'Dave old boy you just missed your opening.'Jan said, "Dave, would. As a young boy growing up in a middle class Catholic family on the North side of Chicago all sex was taboo and forbidden, there were 'bad' girls in the area but my parernts knew who they were and I certainly had to keep a distance or risk grounding or worse. Down the street from us lived a woman, Marie, she was nearing 'spinsterhood' at age 36, owning her own meticulously kept home I overheard she had a big management job at a big firm downtown. She took the train, putting few miles on her.