”Seeking to change to a more pleasant topic, Lancelot asked, “Guinevere, do you remember the day we first met?”“How could I forget?” she smi...ed. “Young, brash Sir Lancelot had been knighted and made a member of King Arthur’s court. As he stood before my husband and me, I saw something that none have ever seen in him: fear.”“Nonsense! I was not afraid!”“You were terrified! I could see it in your eyes,” she continued to tease him. “I certainly could not blame you, what with the duties Arthur. "You should have given him your number and sohe could ask you out." Ask me out? You're kidding." No, I'm not. If you really want to find out about being a woman, you haveto be with a man."Frankie listened. He shook his head. "I don't want to be with a man. I'mnot gay."Mary giggled drunkenly. "Gay? You're sitting here looking beautifulkissing your wife, Frankie. The two of you will make a great lesbiancouple."Helen told Mary, "he needs to experience it all. I think he needs to havemore than a. Why Alyssa was elated when the therapist told her she was finally nearing a breakthrough after all this time. Now she was glad she let him talk her into being hypnotized by him, but she always wondered why she would have such a strange taste in her mouth after their sessions. Laundromat First noticing the stain in her blouse as she sorted her wash, she wondered how it got there. She smelled it and though the scent was oddly familiar, she couldn’t figure out what she had spilled. When she asked. Alex said, “Dr. Dimwit would flunk you in a minute if he saw my name on a paper with you.”“Dr. Tiege said that, too,” she said.“Dr. Dimwit can’t remember a damned thing, except an insult. It’s all those meetings he goes to,” Alex said.“Meetings?” Sherry asked.“Each time you sit in a meeting with other faculty members, your IQ goes down a tenth of a point. It isn’t all that noticeable at first, but by the thousandth meeting even the most brilliant person is reduced to a drooling idiot.”Sherry.