Note: This story was dynamically reformatted for online reading convenience. Sex Ed 317 or "How Strengthen A Marriage" By the Troubador The fire was warm and welcome, in the big fireplace, something I had only half expected. This was late August after all, and even this far North the days were not only long but also very warm. I guess there were more than a dozen men seated around the great room, enjoying the fire and male company. Far as I knew there wasn't a real life feminine curvy woman within two hundred miles of this place. Probably some native encampments weren't much farther than that, and Lost Mule was just over that to the Southeast. We were in a fly-in fishing lodge, Crazy Charley's to be exact, smack dab in the middle of the mountains covering Western Canada. Far as I knew everyone was having the time of their lives. At least according to their stories, or lies, we had all harvested all the fish the law allowed. Now it was time to take a break after four 'hard' days canoeing and hiking to fishing spots around the area. This was the first time everyone had assembled together and tomorrow morning we were all flying out. Separate airplanes of course since we were going separate directions. Crazy Charley had done this before, so I trusted he had some answer to the potential Air Traffic Control problem. It wasn't late yet, but some of the guys were getting restive. One loud-mouthed jerk had shifted the stories to women. Now all guys like to talk about women, but after a certain age they don't get into particular women. A lot of reasons for that, the most respectable being that we did indeed now know, after the chaos of puberty, that all women were individuals and most deserved our respect. The least admitted reason was we didn't want to get our asses kicked, sliced, diced and/or shot. That last was a distinct possibility as most of us were carrying belt guns. Not to protect ourselves against the Grizzlies that we occasionally saw, but hopefully to make enough noise that we could scare them away. And if that didn't scare them away, hopefully some of our fellow fishermen would be able to find the remains and send them home to the women we didn't appreciate someone else talking about. Most of us were too settled into the big upholstered armchairs to be driven away. Unfortunately my son, the one who was treating me to the trip, wasn't one of them. He got up almost as soon as the talk turned to women and left. I scooted back in my chair, nursing my scotch and listened without comment. As expected the loud mouth ended up monopolizing the bragging. Until one of the younger guys got tired of listening to his talk of meet 'em, bed 'em and leave 'em and suggested that I, in my position as eldest bull in this herd might have something to add. For some reason it struck a chord among those gathered and there was a thoughtful pause as all eyes turned to me. I snorted, took a sip of my scotch and started to make a particularly scathing comment. Then a memory popped up, and it dawned on me that it might be of some use here. Maybe even loud mouth would listen and learn. Doubtful, but it was worth a try. "Well, fellas. It's been some years since I was a young bull, or even a mature bull like you fellas. Yet maybe I have a story you'd get something out of. Listening to the stories here tonight, I'm afraid it's not on the same level, but it kind of shows something about the way womenfolk work. And that knowledge, earned long before this thing took place, has come in 'good stead' to me. Whatever good stead means!" The Story "My kids were all grown, my wife had died, and I was in that age when the miracle drug, Viagra, was sometimes needed. Sometimes not, but to be safe should be taken when you weren't sure, or you might very well be sorry." "I was living in a small house, three bedroom rambler, in a small collection of newish homes all constructed in the same year. You all know the kind, a bedroom community, mostly young couples with lots of kids, and all clustered around one road that curved away from the county road, then returned to it a city block further on. A couple dozen homes on both sides of the street, with a kind of village green between the county road and the homes on that side of the half circle road. "We had an eight foot fence blocking what was almost an acre of green space from the county road, with fences behind the homes backing up to it. The kids had a great place to play. As a group we had added a barbecue pit, some picnic benches, and the builder had thrown in swings, slides, climbing contraptions and what all for the kids. It had been a nice attraction for the young families, a local kids park all their own. For me too, I liked watching kids play now in my retirement and afternoons in season I was the de facto baseball/softball/soccer/basketball referee, umpire or what have you. I even got asked to skip rope and play hopscotch. Kept me young. "Young hell! They kept running my ass off! "But it was fun, kept me in some kind of shape, and much as I like to read it gave me something to do that kept me out of trouble. "Some smart cookie decided we needed a community party, and everybody either enthusiastically loved the idea or kept their mouths shut. So we all pitched in and scheduled a big blow out. It was to start on Friday evening, the week before Labor Day, when we would have a barbecue. When it got dark they planned to gather up the younger kids and settle them down in the rec. rooms of two houses across the street from our park; boys would be in one house, girls in another and the houses were separated by three other homes. A couple of the young teens were assigned to each 'barracks' to keep order. Two of the guys got together and cobbled up a 'dance floor'; two by four frames supporting plywood sheets. And damn if it didn't work well. I was kind of the elder statesman, lending a hand where it was needed, but mostly having a grand time with the kids and teasing the ladies. "After the kids were down, a bar was set up, serve yourself, a long extension cord was run from the back of one of the homes and a someone's stereo was set up to provide music. Quite an eclectic mix of music, I even snuck some of my swing music collection in. Surprised me that everyone seemed to like it. But what's not to like about the Count, the Duke and the King. Of course I had some real laid back stuff too, like the Ink Spots, Ames Brothers, Ella and "The Sassy Miss Sarah Vaughn". "Sometime around 10:00/10:30 I realized I had a shadow. Abie, one of the young wives that had just moved in seemed to be tagging along where ever I wandered. This was certainly no hardship. She was dressed in what I called tan shorts, but probably had some more exotic name that told women precisely what the color was. To me it was tan. She was wearing a thin, very pale green sleeveless top with wide lapels. The buttons only came up to just below her breasts, but the fabric was cut to meet almost all the way to her throat. It was just long enough to cover her to the top of her shorts. When she bent or turned an entrancing strip of tanned flesh was exposed between the blouse and those shorts. Even more interesting, when she bent forward the neckline fell open from her throat down, showing some of her cleavage. Her arms, nicely rounded and pretty, were shown off and that hint of cleavage, though very modest, made all the men crane their necks to see if he couldn't get a deeper glimpse down that cleft. White boat shoes with no socks completed her ensemble. And, yeah. I was spraining my neck to see, too. Abie was early 20's, slim but curved appropriately, soft brown hair that seemed always to have been just brushed before the wind blew a couple tendrils loose. She wasn't much shorter than my 5' 8", and had a killer smile, which always seemed to be turned on. Her legs reached all the way from the ground up to where they joined a perfect derriere. I didn't know about the other men in our little community, but seeing her always made my day a little brighter. Smart, too! She and I had a bunch of slangfests, which she won as often as not. So her presence certainly wasn't unwelcome. I had been sipping on a brandy all evening. Nice and smooth, it just kept me kind of loose. Abie on the other hand was hitting Vodka Martini's pretty steadily. Being a small girl, she was definitely beyond the feel good stage. Along about 11:15 I got around to asking where her husband Harry was. Turns out his boss had sent the good man off on a trouble shooting trip Thursday and he wasn't expected back home until Wednesday or the coming Thursday. The good part was that Harry was going to be given a five-day weekend when he got back, maybe even taking the whole four days after Labor Day off to give them a week off. They were planning a camping trip, but tonight Abie was lonely. They hadn't been in their new house more than six weeks, and Abie didn't feel like she really knew any of the neighbors except me. The poor woman was afraid of the other husbands, even though their wives were with them so she stuck with me for safety. Needless to say, this was not an ego booster. Yet at the same time it made me feel good. Would have been nice to have an attractive young thing like her think I might have SOME sex appeal but, what the hey, what I got wasn't all that bad. As the evening progressed, I snuck in a few dances with some of he other women, being sure to pick something where I wouldn't embarrass myself too badly. Toward the end of the evening, which was fast reaching its ending for me, Abie and I enjoyed a few of he slower numbers ourselves. She was a tremendous dancer! Light and soft in my arms, seeming to know before I did the maneuver I was going to try next. As a result we moved as one on the floor. She was only the third woman with which I had experienced such propinquity. My own mother was the first, my wife the second. Harry was lucky I was old enough to be Abie's grandfather, I sure would have been after her. Dancing with the little nymph was a delight, not only for the rhythm but also for the full body hug her now inebriated body was gifting to me. I have no idea if she was aware of it, in her besotted state, but she was giving my dumb handle excellent exercise. He hadn't done chin-ups like this for years or should I call them sit-ups. I'm not that long. Sometime around 1:00 I started saying goodnight to everybody, it was long past my bedtime. Finally I poured myself my last toddy of brandy for the night and strolled across the grassy park under the moon. The stars were out, the evening warm, the music mellow, and so was I. I must have been a little befuddled myself. It wasn't until I opened the gate into my backyard, which opened onto the park that I realized Abie had followed me home. It was a temptation to just figure she was a stray and I should keep her, at least overnight. That didn't seem fair under the circumstances. I mean she had been hanging around me to keep her safe, and surprisingly enough I still had some scruples left after all these years. "Abie, I'm calling the evening over, do you want me to walk you home?" "No, I can get there myself, but can I come in for a minute. Just talk, would that be OK?" was her answer. So I escorted her inside, turning the heat on under the teapot as I walked through the kitchen. Abie was still sucking on a Vodka Martini. She looked pretty much in the bag, and I was a little worried about her. I turned the indirect lighting on low that ran along the ceiling on the inside wall. Then sat on the couch next to her before asking, "You going to be alright tonight, girl?" Damned if she didn't start to tear up! Turning to me she kind of threw herself on my shoulder and asked me, "What's wrong with me? Why can't I be a good lover?" After that showstopper, she really began sobbing. Oh sweet Jesus, what did I have here? If this wasn't a situation, I didn't know what was. Holding her gently while she cried, and frantically trying to think of some kind of an answer, I finally figured out I needed more information. Guess I either took a double dose of my dumb pills today, or had sipped more Scotch than I realized. "Abie, why in the world do you ask me that? You are a beautiful girl! What's wrong?" "Harry says I'm OK, but he doesn't act like it. When we make love he pets me a little, then we have sex, he rolls off me, holds me for just a moment and goes to sleep." She sobbed for a moment, "I'm so horny when he goes to sleep I could kill! Why can't I really enjoy sex, Duncan? Why am I frigid? Harry says I am a good lover, but he never really looks satisfied. After he's done he always asks me if I liked it! Why doesn't he know? What' wrong with me? Why can't I really enjoy sex?" She buried her face in my shoulder and hiccuped a few times before continuing, "I mean, I like making love with Harry, I just don't finish like all my girl friends say they do. What's wrong Duncan, why can't I be a complete woman? What am I doing wrong?" "Abie, are you sure you should be asking me this question? You've only known me a little over a month. How about your mother, or some other woman you trust? For heavens sake, why not talk to Harry about this? He's your husband, don't you talk together? Don't you tell each other what you like and don't like, how to make you feel good? How about Harry, what has he told you he likes you to do to him?" "Duncan, my mom lives across the country, and we never talked about things like this. I'd be too ashamed to even bring it up. And all my girl friends just talk about how great the sex is for them. How can I tell them I don't know what great sex really feels like. I mean, they talk about seeing stars, and moons, and having earthquakes. One of my friends says she keeps ripping the pillow apart with her teeth to keep from screaming and waking up the kids and her neighbors. How can I tell her I have no idea what she's screaming about?" "Duncan, I know you only met me when we moved in, but everyone knows how helpful you are, and you are so wise, you always seem to know the answer to peoples problems. Duncan, I can't go to my pastor, he just tells people to have more trust in Jesus. How's that going to help me make my husband happy? I don't know ANYONE to ask. Except you! Please, Duncan, I know this is crazy but I don't know where else to turn." I held her quietly as her sobs slowly quieted. After a long while she was snuggling into my shoulder, burrowing her face into my chest and holding me tight. "Abie, why don't you tell me about it?" I asked, turning her away from my shoulder to lay back on my lap, facing me. She was resting on my right arm, the arm then slipping down her back until its hand cupped her right buttock. My left hand now rested on her thigh and her breast pressed solidly into my ribs. Those long legs of hers stretched out along the couch, the lower knee bent and pushed up against the back. The upper leg was straight, her ankle passing over the left ankle, that foot flat against the arm on the opposite end of he couch. Her chin tilted up, hair streaming over my arm, her eyes blinking away the last of her tears as she shyly looked up at me. Smoothing her hair back from her brow, I then softly stroked the side of her face before beginning to trace the curve of her jaw from under her ear to her lips. "What do you, mean? He just, 'makes love to me'." "For instance, does he hold you like this at all? Does he follow your curves, like this?" I asked, running my hand along her side to her hip, then making lazy little circles over the back of her shorts. "Doesn't he give you little kisses, like this?" and I leaned down to give her tiny butterfly kisses on her brow, cheeks and nose. Very softly, very quick gentle touches, moving each kiss to a different spot. In a moment her breathing was picking up and I noticed her eyes dilating slightly. "N-n-no! Nothing like that," she stuttered as I slowed the kisses but didn't stop. "Nothing like that, he just...Well, he just makes LOVE to me." "OK," I said. "Does he do this?" I lifted my hand from where it was still making intricate circles on her hip where the flesh appeared from under the tan shorts, then began tracing arcane patterns on her upper arm. She shivered under my slow, slowly moving finger, "He's never done any of those things." She blushed, "He just MAKES LOVE to me." I sat back to think for a moment as I continued tracing the alphabet on her arm from where the arm emerged naked from under her green blouse, all the way to the back of her hand. I noticed her arm in the trail my fingers made was covered with pleasure bumps. Watching her for a moment, enjoying the slight glaze I could see now in her eyes in the dim light. I picked up her right hand from where it was lying easily atop her left wrist in her lap. Deftly preventing her from taking my hand in hers, I lay it in her cleavage. Slowly I began tracing down the back of her little finger. So softly as to hardly be felt. I could feel the soft down on the back of her finger. Down and back, down and back I traced the finger, before continuing on down to run my finger around the tip of little finger, than up the outside all the way to the palm, then back. Pulling her finger gently in the air my inspection and exploration continued to the web between that and the index finger, then back. Finally I held the little finger in a circle made of all four of mine. Tracing it, pulling softly, squeezing lovingly, I made gentle love to just her little finger, finally kissing the ball of that tiny appendage with the balls of all my fingers. Enjoying the difficulty she was having breathing as she was inundated with these totally unexpected sensations. Feelings she had never suspected could be aroused. Knowing we had all night, and all day if needed, I continued on to pleasure her ring finger, and then the others. Abie seemed to be mesmerized as I proceeded. The back of my knuckles were constantly making little 'accidental' touches where the blouse was now pushed back to leave the cleavage between her breast exposed. Some unknown time later, I lifted my hand from hers, lifting her chin gently to look into her eyes. "No loving like that, Abie?" She stared into my eyes with wonder, but all she could do was give a little shake of her head. Using just the tips of my fingers, I began tracing her cheek, from her brow to the corner of her lips. Then I followed the line of her jaw from under one ear, around under her lips to under the other ear. Then repeating, I started at the other side. Her eyes closed and I could swear she purred. When my fingers dropped down and I began making lazy curlicues and spirals on the soft flesh beneath her jaw her breathing slowed and almost ceased for a moment, until she gave a great gasp when the oxygen deprivation became too great. But breathing didn't return to normal even then. When my fingertips dropped to began tracing the hollow of her throat, her jaw lifted to give me more room. Being careful to remain only on the flesh being offered by the opening in her collar. I took my time touching and pleasuring the soft, warm flesh there on display. She seemed to be spellbound when my hand left her décolletage and I lifted her right arm by softly and firmly grasping her wrist. Carefully lifting it over her head I left it there, the forearm lying atop her soft brown hair, shining in the dim romantic light, her wrist and hand resting on the back of the sofa. Tracing my fingers down the top of the arm now lying above her head, I followed down the inside of her bicep, then onto the infinitely sensitive skin of her underarm. Noting how smoothly it was shaven, I so slowly, s-l-o-w-l-y began exploring the area. It was a part of her body I believed no one but she had been allowed to even touch without a struggle. Unconsciously she was giving it up to me, secure in her trust that I would do her no harm. As I did my magic there, I asked her, "Is this making love, Abie?" Her eyes were shut tight, her face a mask of concentration as she savored the alien, unexpected sensations. She slowly nodded her head. "Has Harry ever done this?" I asked. Again her head moved, this time shaking 'no' ever so slowly. "If he did, would you be ready to make love now?" I asked. Her eyes opened, locked on mine and her lips moved. They seemed to purse first, as if asking for a kiss, before she said, "Yes, oh yes. I am so ready now." "If I were your lover, would I be ready now," I asked, knowing she could feel the solid, pulsing manhood lying under her left hip. Her eyes still locked on mine, her voice stronger, she slowly nodded her head as she answered, "Yes!" while wiggling her body over my erection. Then she shifted her weight, until my shaft was better accommodated and more firmly lying against her. Smiling slowly, I moved my right hand to rest against her lower tummy, cupping it softly, my fingers now beginning a gentle tattoo on her belly under her blouse. Each finger individually, playing her like a fine piano. I could feel the tune beginning where she lay against me. My free left hand moved to the top button of her blouse, which was holding the blouse from further displaying the vee of her cleavage. Her eyes remained locked to mine, her breathing shallow and fast. Slowly, deliberately I turned the button, and slipped it out of its hole. Delaying a moment while we looked one another in the eyes, I moved my hand to the next button and repeated my action. I did not move my eyes until the fourth and last button was released and her blouse began to slide open. Very deliberately my eyes moved down to watch as the blouse revealed her soft belly and the swell of her breasts in their bra cups. Drinking in her soft curves, my hand moved to push the sides of the garment until they fell to either side of her desirable body. Slowly, inexorably I leaned forward. My eyes were now fixed on her lips; my tongue licking my own. Just before my lips met hers I stopped. My eyes now on hers, I moved the tip of my tongue to just touch her lips. Slowly, gently running just the tip of my tongue along her lips, I traced the join of her red, now pouty lips. Again and over again I tasted her. It had been hours since she had applied her make-up; still I enjoyed the flavor of the vestiges of her lipstick. With my left hand I now slowly, oh so slowly traced the join of her breasts to her body. Gently, giving her nerve endings time to savor each part newly being touched and anticipate the next movement. She shuddered under my touch and her lips opened a trifle. Leaning closer, I kissed the corner of her mouth, my tongue tasting her again inside the kiss. Then I gave a soft, fairy-light kiss to her pouting lips, quickly shifting my lips to the other corner and tasting her again. Leaning back for a moment I ran a finger along those lips, teasing them open then slowly and lovingly pushing my finger into her mouth. I pushed it in, pulled it out, then gently thrusted it into her mouth again, and again, and again. She moaned. I bent forward, laying soft, quick, gentle kisses all over her face until she shivered and one hand came to cup the back of my head to pull me closer. I obliged, sealing my mouth to hers, driving my tongue into her mouth and slowly, thoroughly ravaged hers. My left hand was now cupping her breast, my fingers kneading and milking. Spreading my fingers wide I gripped them around that breast before firmly pulling them up, gently dragging her tit up from her chest. At last, as my tongue was claiming her mouth, my hand with the tips of my fingers had grasped her areola pulling her nipple up away from the white loveliness of her mound. Pulling softly, twisting, gently and lovingly I pinched her nipple as I pulled it away from her body. Then, letting go I dropped my hand to cup her tit with my palm. Again grasping the base of her mound with my fingers I rubbed my palm firmly over her nipple which now was a hot bullet pushing through into my hand. As my hand continued giving her sensation I dropped my face to bury it in her cleavage, my tongue snaking out to lick and taste the hot sensitive valley between her breasts. She was moaning again, her hips now gyrating, trying to push themselves against something that wasn't there. My hands now occupied both her breasts, pulling them, kneading them, rolling the nipple firmly but roughly. I was slobbering over her cleavage, letting her feel the moisture. Then I sucked her left tit into my mouth, trying to pull it all into my mouth, lashing the nipple with my tongue. Her hand now tried pulling my face harder into her chest. Her arousal was strumming her body, and I shot my hand down, shoving it without hesitation directly under the waistband of her tan shorts and under her panties. Swiftly my hand pushed past the welcoming bush until with just the tip of my middle finger I reached out and pressed atop her clitorus. It was the first touch tonight. Holding it there I kept it stationary but pushed and pulled the tender bud up, around and down using only the pad of my finger. Handling it gently. Without warning, her body went into convulsions! I sucked hard on her tit, holding her body tight to mine with the arm locked under and around her, felt and watched her ride her orgasm. At first all her breath huffed out of her, and it was a moment before she could draw it back in. Finally she screamed! It came out from deep inside, harsh and loud. I knew her throat would be sore tomorrow from that one single tribute to my lovemaking. The orgasm lasted long minutes, until I thought it best that I stop adding to her sensations, just holding my hand still and moving my lips to her mouth, where I kissed her gently and tenderly. When she began relaxing, after the aftershocks too numerous to mention quit surging through her unexpecting body I gently pulled her upright on my lap. Swiftly I ran my left hand along her collar bone and down her right arm, pushing and carrying her blouse and bra with it, where I slipped them gently off her hand. Then I ran that hand up her back, cupping the back of her neck. Cradling her back away from my body I ran my now free right arm in a caress down the top of her left arm to her hand, again pulling her blouse and bra off that hand, leaving her nude above the waist. Trusting that she could remain sitting without my help for a moment, I brought both hands to the waist of my blue T-shirt and yanked it off over my head, throwing it someplace behind me. Then I put both hands behind her and pulled her into my embrace, her naked breasts nestling into my chest. There I knew they would be stimulated by the hair on my chest. Leaning back, holding her upper body firmly against mine, I looked fondly into her eyes. When she finally focused back on my face. I answered her earlier questions, "That is loving, Abie. Has Harry ever given you that?" With wondering eyes, she looked down into my eyes from where she was sitting on my lap. "I never knew... that could happen. I have never... felt... anything like it. I had no idea..." she murmured in a voice filled with awe. "Don't worry Abie, I can show you how to teach Harry how to do that. And do it such that he doesn't know you are teaching him. Do you think we can do that?" She just looked at me, wonderingly. "Abie, that was loving. That was not love. Don't confuse the two. What you felt was wondrous, but it can't compare to making love with the one you love. Don't get confused. Do you understand? What we just did was marvelous, but it can be so much better. Do you think you would like to learn how to teach that to Harry?" She looked searchingly into my eyes, hers shifting from eye to eye, looking for some hint of duplicity. After a while, seeing only fondness and sincerity she slowly nodded her head. Slowly, making every move obvious, letting her understand and stop me at any time, I lay her back on the couch. Leaning forward I kissed her. When her mouth opened to mine I deepened the kiss and when her arms came up around my neck I began unfastening her shorts. It took me a while to do so, but when I was finished I leaned away from her and slowly began slipping the shorts and panties down her legs, making sure I kept eye contact while I did it. Once she was undressed, I had slipped the shoes off with the shorts and panties, I leaned forward to kiss her while moving myself between her thighs. Her only reaction was to widen her legs. Holding myself up on one arm I grasped my rock hard piston and slowly moved the big plum shaped head up and down her slit. Her juices were soaking my sofa her labia parted and pouted open as soon as my cockhead told them what to do. Then, while holding myself on my elbows, my chest lightly brushing he erect nipples, I slowly slid my length into her. Her sheath was hot and wet. It was also tight, rippling contractions running along my shaft as I gloried in pushing into and filling her femaleness. When I felt a resistance against the tip of my length our pubes were just beginning to mesh. Her labia had clasped and loved me the entire time I was entering her center. Slowly letting my weight drop onto her, she seemed to welcome it by locking her ankles around by ass and pulling me hard to her with her arms. Once she had taken my weight, I twisted my body, giving her a whole body hug. For a moment I held still, looking into her eyes. She reached up and kissed me. I asked if she was sure. At her nod I told her of my vasectomy and assured her of my being disease free. She looked astonished for a moment, ten giggled, "It never crossed my mind that there would be a problem like that with you!" It wasn't long before Abie's hips began moving, slowly pumping my shaft which was filling her so nicely. When she did I began slowly moving in and out of her, stopping every so often when driven deepest inside her to churn my erection deep inside her, pleasuring her deep, even pushing harder against her. It was only moments before her body began to shake and her channel spasmed around my cock. It was all I could take and I poured myself into her. Then I moved myself to the side so as not to crush her, and we lay in one another's arms, slipping into sleep for a moment. When I woke I pulled myself out of her, and went to fetch towels and warm washcloths. She was smiling at me as I returned and insisted on cleaning me after I had carefully cleaned her. We held one another for a while before I carefully lifted her to stand before me. Pulling her into the kitchen behind me I asked, "You like orange juice, Abie?" When she nodded her head yes, I pulled out the pitcher I had made yesterday, dropped three large ice cubes into each of two tall glasses, added a shot of vodka, then filled the sixteen ounce glasses with fresh orange juice. "Here, drink this princess. You need the liquid, the coolness and a taste more alcohol to make your alcohol withdrawal less traumatic after last night. Most of all you need the sugar. Do you like eggs? If you do I'll make us some scrambled eggs." Abie suddenly realized how late it must be. The party had died down hours ago. Looking at the kitchen clock she panicked. Then she looking down at herself, the reality of being naked in a strange house broke through her consciousness. She cupped both hands over her breasts, which was tough holding that cold drink in one hand, then backed up a step and started to turn to leave the kitchen. I reached to take the glass out of her hand, and firmly, gently took her arm. "It's after 4:30, and you don't want to be seen leaving my house and heading for yours this time of the morning. Your husband isn't home, and no one knows you are here." Pulling her gently over to sit at the kitchen table I continued, "No one knows you are here. No one is going to call or come by until probably noon at the earliest. Sit down, drink your orange juice and don't panic! Let me make you something to eat, you will feel better on a full stomach. We can talk or play cards or read the newspaper until you can leave without catching anyone's attention." Looking up at me pleadingly for a moment, she finally nodded her understanding. Taking that as a go ahead, I busied myself with biscuit mix and eggs. In fifteen minutes we had our eggs and biscuits on the table, fresh coffee and a cheerier attitude. Getting her to open up about her marriage, even after all we had shared that night was really tough but I knew we had to get past this if I was to be any help to her and Harry. When I finally got her to talk she started by explaining how they met. The story was sweet and romantic, and maybe I'll tell you about it by itself some other time. Then I got her to tell me how she, a virgin at her marriage bed and Harry a man with almost nonexistent sexual experience began their lifetime cruise into intimacy. Harry had the usual back seat 'wham bam, thank you ma'ms' most teenagers have. They had been married in college, both of them having been more than satisfied with a couple kisses while getting breasts fondled, then Abie lying back and spreading her legs for their sex life. Harry would work his normal sized equipment into her, which took a few moments because she was always dry. Then they would pump at one another until his fountain spurted, which never took very long. Afterward Harry would hold her lovingly and they would talk about their future and how deep their love was before they both went to sleep. The problem Abie had complained about to me didn't come about until they had moved here. Several of the women were in the habit of getting together for Bridge several times a month. Abie was very good at the game and was a welcome member to the group. So what do women talk about over their bridge hands; knitting, of course, how to plant roses, whether the weather was going to change, who was going to emerge the dominant figure in Balkans politics, right? Of course wrong! Several of the gals were very experienced in the arts of love. I'll make no speculation where or when they got so familiar, but did accept it was accurate and the knowledge was fairly won. The stories Abie heard were so far outside her own experience as to dumbfound her. Finally she began to believe her marriage was a shambles because of her inability to respond to her husband. It hadn't yet dawned on her that the wonderful man she was married to, and take it from me he was a really great guy, didn't know diddly squat about how to pleasure a woman. What I had done last night was the first step in her education. Over the next week, Abie spent each night with me, leaving in late morning so that the neighbors were less likely to suspect she had stayed over night. By the third night we were taking steps not to wake the neighbors. Abie was a fast learner, and it wasn't taking her very long to reach her goal, either. Even after Harry got back, we continued to get together over the next few months. Now my pretty neighbor came over around 8:30 or 9:00, heading back home at around 11:00 or so. She told some of the gals who asked that she was having coffee with me while teaching me what she knew about making a Japanese rock garden. She actually knew quite a bit, and helped me make one in a corner of my yard. Over those next few months my friend taught her husband how to pleasure a woman. She had learned how to truly pleasure a man, which was quite a shock to poor Harry at first. She explained to the confused and initially very concerned husband that she had been reading some of her women's magazines. What she was doing was putting their ideas into use. He was satisfied with the explanation, and more than satisfied with the outcome. I have never pressured her to be with me, but she still comes by occasionally for coffee in the mornings strictly on her own hook. She comes over every other week or so, which is about all my weary bones can handle. We have become very close friends, and her Harry and I are good friends, too. Harry and I have a date next Saturday to take in the local colleges annual football grudge match with their closest rival. Abie has promised to have hot chocolate and cookies ready when her boys come home from play. When she told us that, she grinned and said it would be good practice for when the twins get here in January. 1 1