Raj came out of his trance and just pounced on me. In seconds he had ripped off my lingerie, taken off his clothes and was kissing me madly. There was...a lot to make up for after all. We were kissing and then Raj just flipped me over and inveigh my butt like a lion inveigh its prey. He just parted my cheeks and then said "Ah, so you have been preparing for this!"Even before I could reply, he licked my crack. Even before the first gasp escaped my mouth, his tongue was already trying to wrangle. I would not acknowledge that I now knew Kathy was sexually active. I felt that at 16 she would pro- bably not listen to anything I might say anyway. Several days later on the weekend, I was walking past Kathy's room again when she asked me through the door if I had a minute to talk. I said sure and pushed the door open to step through. She was sitting on the bed dressed in her robe tied tight at the waist. She's a very pretty girl, and I'm not just saying so because I'm her father. She has . In the silence, you can hear the shredded tobacco wrinkling into embers. You smother the smoke in the copper ashtray on the Steinway. The old beast has grown cold. You shuffle on the keys, mimic a few strides. Nothing too fancy, nice caresses, feeling the ivory under the your fingertips. Easy and soundless. You danced them to hell this evening. Boogies and swings, shaking them to the core.You take a last sip from your crystal glass. Lacrima di morro d'Alba. The wine throws a sword in your gut. The interior of the cave was too large to heat, and if we wanted to stay warm, we were going to need a smaller confined space. We decided to erect the tent to use as a shelter within our shelter.Thank goodness the components of our tent were color-coded. Within a few minutes, we had all the pieces assembled. Staking our tent in place was a bit more problematic. The thin layer of dusty soil on the fifteen-by-twenty foot plateau of bedrock was not deep enough to drive a tent peg into the ground..