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" 'No, don't do that We'll have a wreck I think all this is a hallucination ¡¯

" 'No, it's not Did you bring any condoms?¡¯

" 'God, no,' I said We had reached Canal Street I knehere the LaFreni¨¨re Cottages were Lynelle and I had eaten three times in their tasty little French bistro 'Mona, Mona, Mona,' I said 'We have to get condoms! Where?¡¯

" 'No, we don't,' she said 'I have tons of them in my purse ' "

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"THE LAFRENI¨¨RE COTTAGES WERE nestled around a central brick courtyard croith the de rigueur palmetto and banana trees, and in the center of the courtyard was a wishing well that may once have served some purpose Noasall e into it

"Mona handled our check-in as if it were nothing, even telling o to her family

"When I protested she whispered, 'Show your strength e get in bed ¡¯

"And off ent, into the little flag-paved cottage, to do just that, in acanopy of ht breezy fabric wound loosely around its four corners

"As soon as the door was latched we both stripped off our clothes with the utter abandon of beasts, and when I beheld her naked, when I saw the pinkness of her nipples and the little blaze of red hair between her legs, I went appropriately crazy

"It was Mona who helped me on with the condom and Mona who had the presence of mind to pull down the covers, so that we didn't stain them, and finally they wound up on the floor as ent at it like little jungle animals

"Whatever was going on with ured, I had fulfilled one of my wildest dreams, no matter that it was newborn, it ild and froet it I would never forget Mona's face as she blushed with the spasm that sent me into the final explosion of pure nirvana

"When it was over we lay together, e each other playfully and gently

" 'Oh, thank God,' she whispered into my ear She helped me with the soiled condoain and she said, 'I wanted to put my mouth on it Come, let me wash you in the bathroom and then I'll do it ¡¯