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"And when I watched him from the door, I knew for the first time that I found both men and women erotically beautiful R

ebecca in the lace-trimmed bed, Goblin in the warm steamy thunderstorm of the shower Fr Kevin Mayfair with that dark curly red hair and those green eyes and not a freckle on his pale face Men and women

"I went out back and walked way over to the right to the bungalohich Jasreen-painted rocking chair, just rocking and s

"I was in a daze I tried not to notice Jasht shirt I tried not to look at the front seam of her jeans When she turned away froht down the line of her throat to her breasts Beautiful woed thirty-five What were oods that I doubted my manhood???

"Oh, that was a lovely thought Wonderfully coo over to the shed, go up the steps and do it in Patsy's bed? I rolled that dreaet HIV from a bed What if -- and then -- and so -- and I felt the panic when I looked at the dihts

" 'What's going to happen now?' I asked

" 'Co myself that very question ' "

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"FOR THE NEXT WEEK I was under lock and key, or armed escort

"I didn't find out about it until theafter Pops' funeral, when I tried to leave ed to go where I would go

"I didn't too terribly er had been and I didn't want to be shocked by hi everyone about the dangers of the island

"Our investigations proceeded rapidly, and I know that I focused on them to escape the pure horror of Pops' death -- the loss of the onlyof his will to attend to, and I was dreadfully concerned that he ether If I had been left anything at all I resolved to split it with Patsy or at least to give her some of it

"Meanti beer joints and s after her by phone, trying to get her to come back so we could all face what Pops had done, whatever it was

"Now let ation