”Instead of going, she slid off the chair and crawled across to the side of my bed and reached up and stroked the quilt over my leg. I shrank back b...t she wouldn’t stop. “Please, you don’t know what a terrible temptation you are and how bad it would be for me to give in to my feelings for you.” It sounded as if she were growling with a very low soft voice. I took a deep breath and continued, “You have to leave my room. I could be condemned to hell for allowing you here.”I couldn’t move. It was. Nurses are giving and helpful people. They have to be to do the jobs they do, changing nasty dressings, cleaning up after detoxing drunks and d**g addicts that puke and shit all over themselves, and taking care of the very old folk who aren’t much better. Anyone with that kind of dedication has my deepest respect.I was in for a week before Candy came to take care of me. She had been on vacation, she said, for the first time in two years. Went to Europe and had the time of her life. I was. And working there has paid off in at least two ways. The first comes in the form an apartment that qualifies as more than just "okay." The huge living room packed with all the latest and greatest in technology that encourages you to sit on your ass and be entertained. A lovely, fully stocked kitchen, plush and expensive furniture, and two master bedrooms that bookend your dream suite, each adorned with their own full size balcony with an advantageous view of the pool/jacuzzi combo several. “Because if you decided to prevent her from seeing me again, it would devastate her,” I told him. “It would devastate me too, but that’s the real reason we wait. I want to do it right with her and that means free of any regrets. I want her first time to be perfect, a memory and an experience that is absolutely free of any negative after-effects.”“I can’t give you that kind of blessing. Certainly not at your age,” he said firmly.“I wouldn’t ask you to,” I assured him. “We’re not asking you to.