Author’s note: By now you should be used to the format so I’ll skip the usual blather. This part of Christina’s story picks up where the last chapter left off on 5/10/07. I do apologize for being so slow in getting this chapter out to you. I should post what I get from Christina closer to when she sends it to me and I can only blame my tardiness on the press of business.
To: JPB 5/16/07
Can you tell I’m having one of those weeks? So sorry that I have been out of touch, but you haven’t missed anything. Last weekend was all basketball and apple pie. Jerry’s sister came to town for Mother’s Day so it was a family get-together time for all of us. The office has been horrendous -- but why go into that!
Working on anything good lately?
To: C 3/19/07
Got home from the mountains and there was a message on the telephone answering machine from the daughter going through the divorce and the wife headed for Denver to see what was up. This left me alone and so I did what I usually do when I’m left alone - I got on the computer. Finished typing Planner 3 (attached) and started on Planner 4.
Managed to write two stories while up on the mountain and read Elmore Leonard’s new one -- “Up in Honey’s Room.”
To: JPB 5/21/07
Always happy to hear that you had time to write.
I had a fun Sunday night. It was that time, (again!) so I invited a few girls over for a PMS party (wine, chocolate, ice cream and chick flicks) and told Gary to get out of the house for a few hours. It was fun to just sit around chat and giggle.
Late in the night Jan, (the most adventuresome of the girls on our nights out) stayed and we both got pretty well snockered and chatted into the wee hours. She flat-out told me that she needs to get laid! Her husband is eighty pounds over-weight, has high blood pressure AND erectile dysfunction and she says she hasn’t had a hard cock in OVER A YEAR!!!
I’m thinking about introducing her to Matt!
Gary, ever the pervert - suggested that I invite her and Matt to our house for a three-way (not his preferred two on one, but what the hell) while he watches.
What do you think? The girl needs it BAD!
To: C 5/22/07
My God woman, how can you ask me that when you already know the answer! It is your Christian duty to help the poor woman in her time of need.
To: JPB 5/26/07 1:12 PM
Sorry you haven’t heard from me, but it has been one hell of a week. My parents were in a car accident this week. Both are okay, but are still in the hospital. I rushed to clear off my desk so I could take off a few days. Amazing…they are never too happy to see me visit, but they called and begged me to come down and care for them and their “babies” (2 mean, ugly little dogs).
I handle the dutiful daughter thing so well, don’t I? I just keep thinking that as far as parents and children are concerned, the parents reap what they sow.
Anyway, they are both fine -- a few broken bones, loving the painkillers and forgetting that “Nurse” is not an adjective for “servant.” Their biggest complaints are all the golf dates they will have to cancel and all of the social events they will have to “struggle” to attend. They are also maintaining a list of the friends who do and who don’t visit. They are such sweethearts. Thank God they found each other and saved two innocent people.
Now the good part. On the flight down I’m seated between a good-looking guy, flying down to get in some golf with his buddies to celebrate his 50th birthday, and a cute kid just out of grad school who is flying down for a job interview. I exchanged cell numbers with both, privately.
On Thursday, after getting to the hospital and hanging around until friends started arriving, I was dismissed for the night. I called the grad student, Brian, and we got together for dinner and then I went back with him to his motel room for a full night (and morning) of enjoyable sex. The kid was ten years younger than me and not all that experienced, but he knew a whole lot more when I was done with him. The one thing that somebody else had already taught him was how to eat pussy and the boy was superb at that. He did have one other good thing going for him - three things actually - enthusiasm, fast recovery time and staying power once I got him up. As I fucked his eyes out I thought of something you said to me a little while back, that sluts made the world a better place to live and I know I made it a better place for Brian. (Do I need to tell you that I called Gary first so he would know what I was doing - or could you figure that out for yourself).
On Friday, Donny, the birthday boy, called me and we made a date for dinner. After my hospital duties were over I went shopping for a sexy dress and heels (I didn’t bring any of that stuff because who knew?) and met Donny at the restaurant (along with his five male friends and two bar pick-ups).
No, no gangbang ensued. Sorry! But Donny and I got full use out of his little blue pills!
And I’m seeing Brian again tonight before he flies out tomorrow.
Donny is in town until Monday afternoon.
I’ve been on the phone a lot with Gary -- driving him crazy.
Spontaneous adventures -- you got to love them!
Who would have ever guessed that something like this would pop up while I was on my errand of mercy?
To: C 5/26/07
Can I be both sorry and glad your parents were in an accident? Sorry that they got hurt, but glad that it got you to go to them so you could have “adventures.”
I envy Brian getting such an experienced instructor so early in his young life.
So what are we going to do with Jan? You have had some time to think about it.
To: JPB 5/26/07 2:28 PM
Sorry Dear, but Gary and I have been talking it over and we decided to let Jan work out her problem on her own. She’s a neighbor and we still want to keep the “other” part of our lives private.
If I set her up with Matt there is no way she wouldn’t hear about me doing a double with him and Nick and the double with Nick before that.
Jerry and I think that the only way we would let something happen is if while out, we (Jan and I) let something happen with some guys and we could BOTH blame it on the booze and have the “quilt” to keep us both quiet. The more I think about it, the more I’m not opposed to it happening that way.
What do you think?
To: C 5/28/07
As far as the Jan thing is concerned I believe I have already said don’t be the first.
I’ve been busy typing stories into the computer, doing yard work and getting my hopes up. The wife is going on another trip next week and this time I’m hoping she will do the deed (what is the saying? Hope in one hand and ---- in the other and see which one fills up first?).
Spent anymore back time in motels after leaving the hospital?
To: JPB 5/31/07
Mother was discharge on Sunday and my father today. They are both doing fine as I strive to meet their standards of care. I was supposed to meet Donny on Sunday and had planned on spending the night rolling around on his bed and the arrangements had already been made (I’d hit a mall and got some really sexy under-things), but my mother called and said she was being discharged so I had to call Don and cancel. Since then I have been staying close to home at the beck and call of dear old mom and dad. Right now, I could really use a good fuck!
It looks like this coming First Friday is going to be a big bust. I do hope Gary has been taking his vitamins. He isn’t going to know what hit him when I walk through the front door.
To: JPB 6/2/07
Gee! Home on a Saturday night at my parent’s house!!! Help me; I think I’m 12 again. Sorry dear, but no action on First Friday. Mother didn’t go for the “But Mother, I NEED to get laid!” excuse.
I’m out of here tomorrow and it can’t be soon enough. I’ve had more reminders than I needed to remember why I moved out to go to college and never moved back.
To: C 6/4/07
Life is getting back to some semblance of normality here. The wife’s vacation is over so I’m able to get back on the computer and I have typed in almost half of Planner 6. I haven’t posted a story anywhere for almost two weeks now for no other reason than I didn’t feel like it. I have these spells from time to time.
I hope you are recovering from the trip to take care of your folks (are they REALLY like you portray them?) and that you will soon be back in the swing of things. Sorry you were not back for First Friday -- I do so look forward to them.
To: JPB 6/6/07
It is great to be back with my family. However, getting back to the office was a shock! I’ve been working 12 - 14 hours a day since I got back.
No dear, my parents are nowhere near as bad as I make them out to be -- they are worse!!!!! Stiff, unaffectionate, driven to maintain their personal social status, etc. I’m sure that I was an accident (either that or their status required them to have a child so they could fit in with their peer group).
Would like to write more, but I’m beat.
To: JPB 6/7/07
I just hung up the phone. Remember Jan -- my neighbor friend who hasn’t been laid in a year? She is finishing up a training course at a hotel nearby my office and wanted to know if I could meet her for Happy Hour in the lounge. I’ve been working my (pretty) butt off all week so I checked with Gary (who - no surprise, said YES and stay out late being naughty) so I told her I would meet her.
Maybe we will just have drinks and dinner together. Maybe something will happen! Who knows?
Keep your fingers crossed.
To: C 6/10/07
Since yesterday was my birthday the wife gave me some slack and I was able to spend some time on the box. I finished Planner 7 (attached) and started on Planner 8. I haven’t yet figured out where I’m going with Planner 9 and 9 may just be the end of it.
What’s up with you? Hope Gary (or somebody) has you naked and flat on your back for most of the weekend.
To: JPB 6/10/07
Happy Birthday sweetie.
What’s up with me? Gary and you hit the jackpot Thursday night!!! Meeting Jan for Happy Hour turned into an adventure that even I could not have predicted. I promise to write it all down for you ASAP. It was incredible baby, just incredible!
To: JPB 6/17/07
Happy Father’s Day.
Sorry for being on the missing in action list. No wonder they call it work -- I haven’t had less than a 12 hour day since I got back from caring for my parents. I even put in 10 hours yesterday -- ON A SATURDAY no less!!! What ever happened to 40 hour weeks?
I know I owe you a lot of story-telling and I promise I will get to it as soon as I have some down time.
To: C 6/21/07
Recovered from the pulled tooth just in time to be run over by the Father’s Day weekend. I used to have a garden on the south side of the house, but in the past few years I’ve never gotten around to planting anything and the area turned into a dumping ground for everything we wanted to get out of the way. The wife decided that the eyesore needed to go and that the best way to get rid of it was to extend the deck that is across the back of the house around to the side. Guess what my Father’s Day present was? Yep! I got to build a deck all weekend and it will take my next weekend too. Didn’t get to spend any time on the computer.
Have nine stories waiting to get into the box. I wish I could type as fast as I write.
Hope you and the little guy gave Gary a happy Father’s Day (from my standpoint that would be you didn’t have him build a deck).
To: JPB 6/21/07
No, I didn’t have him build a deck. In fact, I gave him breakfast AND dessert in bed…then we went downstairs and I made eggs and bacon for my guys.
Still trying to get a block of time to write you all about what is happening to me. Please be patient with me baby.
To: C 6/25/07
Well, the stupid deck is done and the wife is so happy with it that she let me get on the computer without any of her normal fuss. Debated typing in my latest (BASCouple - George and Shawna), but instead opted for cleaning up some of the backlog. I got about half of Sandi’s Mistake done.
Getting antsy to hear about Jan and what else you have been up to. What’s up -- still working ungodly hours?
To: JPB 6/25/07
Yes, still working ungodly hours, but it seems that my bosses have noticed. Today they presented me with my very own assistant. And the best part -- he is a charming, young, cute and well-built intern. He is so YUMMY! I feel like he has been given to me to test my “work=no play” rule. Life is so unfair!
I had an incredible adventure this weekend. I’m not even going to give you a hint so as not to spoil the whole incredible thing. I’ll write it up as soon as possible. HEY! Maybe I’ll ask my new assistant to proof it for me!!! Ohhh, I’ve got to stop thinking like that. Can you tell I’m still a bit wired from the weekend?
Thanks for forwarding the feedback on the BASW_me stories. I’m always tempted to e-mail the senders and say, “Hi, I’m Christina” but I never have.
To: C 7/01/07
Another early morning check in. Have to be to work in two hours and couldn’t sleep so I’m up and spending those two hours on the computer. I am pulling up your e-mails from 12/28/06 to the present and I will start piecing them together for the next BASW_you.
I have another KM story to do. She went on a bus trip to an away basketball game as a chaperone for the cheerleaders and some interesting things happened on the way home (they won so things were a little rowdy).
Still trying to come up with an idea for the next Planner.
Got plans for the weekend?
To: JPB 7/02/07
Oooooh! You know I love KM stories!!!!
Our weekend was basically quiet. I worked again on Saturday and then went to a neighbor’s for a bar-b-q. Sorry to report that no hanky-panky ensued even though I was somewhat open to the idea. However….Jan let me know that she is ready to have another adventure -- with or without me.
Did I tell you I have a scrumptious new assistant? He is so cute! Since he was going to be there Saturday also I decided to wear a more casual outfit and he seemed very pleased that I did. He and three other guys rent a house and he invited me to their “big 4th of July blowout” and then quickly added that, “Of course your husband is welcome too.” DON’T EVEN SUGGEST IT!!!!! I am not going to cross that line! At least that is what I’m telling Gary. I mean really Robert -- the kid works for me. That’s sexual harassment, right? But, then again, if he doesn’t complain…?
You will be happy to hear that I’m ALMOST finished detailing my most recent adventures. I’m hoping to send it to you before the weekend.
To: JPB 7/09/07
Remember me? I haven’t been a very good friend lately. Work has been terrible and it has been taking up all my time and I haven’t stayed in touch with you very well.
People are finally going on vacations, cutting down on the number of calls and meetings and deadlines. My new assistant is working out very well (and at times I like to think of him working it IN very well -- but it isn’t going to happen!). I didn’t go to his party on the 4th and on Thursday he let me know he was disappointed. He might have been happier if he had known I spent part of Wednesday imagining him sneaking of to a bedroom with me during his party. Oh well.
I have finally managed to get my incredible, fantastic (but absolutely true) tale together. It was something that neither Gary nor I could ever have imagined. Gary has been a crazy man since it happened and that has cut into my computer time too.
Anyway, for better or worse I have attached it.
(The following is the attachment to e-mail of 7/09/07)
Wow! What a sexy month it’s been. I already told you about the flight to my hometown and how I exchanged phone numbers with two cute guys.
On my first night there I hooked up with Brian, the grad student who had flown down for a job interview. I picked him up at his motel in my parent’s car and we had a fast dinner and then hurried back to his motel room. The sex was marvelous!! He was cute and well built and, like me, loved giving and getting oral so naturally I started out sucking his cock. After several minutes he prodded me into a sixty-nine and he went to work on my pussy. The boy knew how to use his tongue! He got me going so good that I didn’t want to quit to fuck so I ended up taking his first cum down my throat. He kept on working my pussy so I kept on sucking his dick until he was hard again and then I pulled away from his mouth and rode him cowgirl. I pounded down on him and had two or the orgasms before he grabbed me and rolled me over on my back and started fucking me hard. I had one more orgasm before he came and then we cuddled together and took a short nap.
He woke me after about a half hour by sucking on my tits and then of course I needed something to suck on and soon he was up and ready and off we went again. He was young and energetic, but he had already cum twice so it took him a while to get the third one off and then the boy totally surprised me. He swung around and started eating my pussy even though it was dripping with his cum. I already told you that the boy knew how to lick and lap and he had me screaming in no time so I had to return the favor (I like young men -- they are like Energizer Bunnies and just go and go and go) and soon he was ready again. I love the doggie position so I got on my knees and he knew just what I wanted and he took me from behind. I had two screaming orgasms be fore he came and then we fell to the bed exhausted and napped again. We snoozed for about an hour, got up and showered together, fucked one more time and then I fell sound asleep. He had a six o’clock wake-up and we fucked one more time, showered again and then he rushed off to his job interview and I went to the hospital to play Florence Nightingale for my parents.
On Friday Donny called me and we made a date for dinner. Donny had flown down to celebrate his fiftieth birthday with his friends on and off the golf courses. After my hospital duties I went shopping for a sexy little dress and a pair of heels and then met Donny at the restaurant. He was there with five of his friends and two female bar pick-ups and the nasty part of my brain thought that things might get really raunchy, but they didn’t (darn it!!). Donny and I spent a nice, sexy (somewhat tamer than the previous night) time in his room. He ate me, we fucked, I sucked him hard and we fucked again and I left a little after midnight with Donny asleep on his bed. Before he nodded off we made arrangements to get together again on Sunday.
Saturday night I spent the night in Brian’s room, calling out for pizza when we got hungry. Once again youth came to the fore and I did my best to fuck Brian’s eyes out while he did his best to fuck my brains out. I got the boy off five times and I lost track of how many times he made me climax, but I felt like a wrung out dish rag when I finally fell asleep snuggled up next to him. I woke up to him prodding and poking me trying to get me up on my knees and once I managed to wake up enough to figure out what he wanted I helped and he drove it into me from the rear and fucked me for a good ten minutes before shooting his sperm in me. Then we showered and he wanted to go again, but I had to say no because I was already late as far as getting to the hospital was concerned. If I had known then what I found out later I would have stayed for that one more time. Before I could get to the hospital my mother called me to tell me she was being released. That shot down my plans to see Donny that night and I had to call him and cancel. Along about six that evening I was wishing I had let Brian have ‘that one more time.’
After mother got home I had to behave myself, staying close to my parent’s house until my father was released and then I flew home.
I had been driving Gary crazy on the phone throughout my naughty weekend and I was really surprised that he hadn’t rented a room at the airport hotel so he could hustle me from the arrival gate into a bed. He had second thoughts about that on the way home when he almost had an accident as I was orally relieving some of his tension (I’m just such a slut -- sucking off my hubby in broad daylight as he drove me home - imagine that!).
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So, it was back to work to find my desk piled so high that I had to work 12 to 14 hours a day to catch up. On Thursday I was at my desk when I got a call on my cell phone from my neighbor Jan. I told you about Jan didn’t I? She was the one who, on a girl’s night out, ended up in a car with a few guys and when we caught up with them she was on her way into their apartment with them? If we hadn’t gotten there when we did it was almost certain that they would gotten her inside and gangbanged her. Found out on the drive home that she might not have really minded. Anyway, I had the girls over for a wine-and-chick-movie night. Jan stayed after the rest of the girls left and we were both pretty well snockered and we chatted into the wee hours. She flat out told me that she needs to get laid! Her husband is eighty pounds overweight, has high blood pressure, diabetes and erectile dysfunction and she hasn’t had a hard cock in WELL OVER A YEAR!
So, that’s the background. Over the phone she told me that she was finishing up a training course at a hotel nearby and wanted to know if I could meet her for Happy Hour in the lounge. One of the guys in her class had been flirting with her all week and he would be there and she wanted some back-up. I’d been working my butt off all week and I decided that I deserved a night out. I checked with Gary (who, no surprise, said “YES” and stay out late being naughty!!”). I called her back on her cell and told her I’d meet her there.
When I got there I finally found Jan with a big crowd. She introduced me around and we had a pretty good time drinking and chatting. Because of the hours I had been working I was trying what the waitress called “Mid-Week Tweeks” (vodka and Red Bull) in case I needed some energy later.
A little before eight we were down to seven of us at a table. Jan and me, Sandra (one of the course coordinators - 45ish, gorgeous and tall and slender, but with curves in all the right places and with great legs -- Jan and I both hated her!!! Ha!) and four guys - Alex, Frank, Paul and Steve. Jan obviously had the hots for Frank and it looked like Paul and Sandra had a thing going. The training had been for state employees working in the budget area so Alex and Steve were from Providence, Frank from Concord and I’m not sure where Paul was from.
The place was getting crowded and very loud and we were getting tired of yelling at each other. Finally Alex invited us up to his room where he said it would be more comfortable and a lot quieter. I glanced at Jan and she gave me one of those “Please say yes” looks so I nodded and we all headed up to Alex’s room.
When the elevator door opened on Alex’s floor Paul and Sandra stayed on the elevator and said their good-nights. Steve, the odd man out, followed us to Alex’s door where Frank told him that it would probably work out better if it was ‘couples only’. At the bar Steve had barely said a word, but he was one of those guys who looked at women hard - and not in a good way. He looked like he had expected to party with the four of us, but a look from Alex got him moving down the hall.
So there we were in Alex’s room - two guys, two girls and two beds. I was curious to see how fast the mood would turn naughty when Jan showed us that it was going to get naughty immediately. As Alex started to ask us what we would like to drink Jan started taking her clothes off and urged Frank to do the same. I had no intention of leaving that room without being fucked, but I did have a reputation to consider. I pretended to be a little flustered and even took a couple of steps toward the door, but then Jan said:
“Please Chris, stay with me.”
I hesitated and she said please one more time and I shrugged and turned back into the room (I remembered what you said about being “led” into it). Alex smiled at me and said, “Well Christina, I guess when in Rome….” It was only minutes before everyone was naked and the beds were getting a work out.
Jan was moaning and groaning loudly and I peeked over and saw that she had Frank wrapped tightly in her arms and legs. She looked exactly like a woman getting her first fuck in over a year. It was obvious that Alex preferred skipping the huggy-kissy phase and the oral phase as he moved me onto my knees and elbows and entered me doggie style -- and it was very, very good!
I need to break away from the action and tell you about Alex. As you already know, I’m almost 5’2” and about 115 lbs (well, that’s what I’ll admit to). Alex, on the other hand is 6’7” and whatever a well-built 6’7” guy weighs. As he was slamming his cock into me (after a very gentle initial penetration) I remembered a discussion several of us had had in the wee hours of a party about the “Debra and Robert Thing.” Apparently Gary isn’t the only one who has obscene thoughts every time he watches “Everybody Loves Raymond” and Debra and Robert are standing in the same frame. The whole crowd agreed that they would love to see giant Robert and petit Debra going at it! The women favored the picking-her-up-and-going-upstairs scenario and the men wanted Robert to rip her clothes off of her and bend her over the back of the couch and then fuck the stuffing out of her.
And here I was, Debra to Alex’s Robert! I’m not going into the whole erotic story “Huge Dick” thing, but Alex’s dick was definitely proportional to the rest of him and I was enjoying every second of it!
When we finished the first round I was eager for more, but I had no intention of letting Jan see me for the slut that I was so I waited to see what she would do. She was apparently just as eager for more as I was (like I couldn’t have guessed since she been almost a year without) and she moved so she could suck Frank’s cock and then I followed her lead. Frank responded first and he and Jan went at it doggie style. When Alex recovered I couldn’t wait to mount him and play cowgirl and, while riding him he made it clear how much he loved my boobs. Needless to say this second time took longer for both couples. I gave myself a half a dozen cums before Alex let loose his geyser and Frank and Jan finished about the same time.
After that we took a break and raided the mini-bar. We were sitting there naked and when Alex went into the bathroom and Frank was mixing the drinks Jan came over and sat next to me and hugged me.
“Christina, I can’t thank you enough. I needed this. I really needed this and if you hadn’t been her I don’t know if I would have had the courage to go through with it.”
I told her that it was okay and I was enjoying it also. Then she asked me what Gary would think and I told her that I didn’t want to talk or even think about that at the moment. Just about then Frank moved in front of me and leaned down to kiss me. He was a good kisser. It wasn’t long before he was working on my boobs and then Alex came back into the room, saw what was happening and said:
“Come on over here Jan; they look like they want to switch.”
And then we went at it again in that configuration. Naturally, it took longer for us to cum that time and I did have a couple of marvelous orgasms. One of the turn ons was watching Jan bouncing up and down on Alex. Jan was no bigger than me so it was like I was watching the Debra and Robert thing and I was sorry that I didn’t have a picture showing me on top of Alex.
Finally, after a longer break, Jan and Frank left the room to go to Frank’s room. Alex asked me if I could spend the night and I was sorry to have to tell him no. He lifted me off the bed and kissed me and then said:
“This has been fantastic. We don’t live far apart and I would really like to see you again.”
He put me down on the bed and sucked a breast into his mouth and started on my clit with his fingers. I was tired, but I knew I had one more in me. Then I had a perverted thought flash through my brain.
“How badly would you like to get together again Alex?”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean that maybe I could work a deal and we could get together again.”
He looked at me and his dick was twitching back to life and he asked me what kind of a deal.
“Well, you didn’t mind Frank and Jan being here with us and you had no problem when we switched partners. What if I brought a guy with me?”
His eyes got big and he said, “And you would want to fuck us both?”
“That would be up to you, but I know he’d be just as happy to watch.”
You know I was thinking about Gary, right?
Anyway, Alex said it wouldn’t bother him in the least especially if it would get us back together again. By then his cock was rock hard again and he lifted my legs up on his shoulders and pushed himself into me. It took him a long time to get himself off that last time and it didn’t bother me a bit because on the way to getting himself off he got me off another three times. We exchanged phone numbers, I told him I would get back to him on getting together again and then I left.
I got home a little after 1 AM and of course I found Gary waiting up for me. I told him about the evening and then we played until 3 AM. Getting up for work was horrible!!!
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When my cell phone rang around noon it was Jan, still excited about the previous night. She told me that she and Frank had fucked until almost dawn. I asked her about what her husband had said about her being out so late. She said:
“Christina, after all these years he can still surprise me. He woke up as I was getting into bed and I had to look a mess. He asked me if I’d had a good time and I told him that I had. He kissed me on the cheek, held my hand and said, “Good. I’m really glad. You deserve a good time. Make sure you do it again whenever you want.” I hugged him and fell asleep with tears in my eyes. He knows Christina; he knows and he was telling me it was all right.”
“You are a lucky woman Jan. He is an understanding guy who loves you.”
“Yeah, he is. What about Gary?”
“I was lucky. He was asleep when I got home and this morning he didn’t even ask me what time I got home so I didn’t have to tell him any lies. What he doesn’t know can’t hurt us.”
So, that was my first time out with Jan and I would have to call it a pretty successful outing. Hopefully there will be more. And you know that if there is you will be the second man to know about it.
Love
Chris
(And yes dear reader there is more. Even as I was typing this, e-mails were coming in describing Christina’s second meeting with Alex.)