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Archive-name: 3plus/marble.txt
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Archive-author: Sharon Pauma (1991)
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Archive-title: Marble Mountains, The
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What is it that makes some men so implacably contrary? The more
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you need something, the more they thwart you. The more you want
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them, the farther they withdraw. And all the while they lavish their
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time and attention on things of no consequence but to their own
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obsessions. I know the pat answer from psychology. But when you
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live it, the pat answer does not resonate. Their behavior seems
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diabolical and you long for escape.
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Paul drove our station wagon north on 101 all through the foggy
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night. Bill and Barbara expected us at the trailhead in the
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California Marble Mountain Wilderness in the morning. Paul did most
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of the driving because he didn't trust me to drive in the fog.
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He did trust me to do almost all preparations for our nine day
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backpacking trip, though. The company, he said, needed yet another
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draft of his proposal to spin off some divisions.
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Bill and Barbara, whom we hadn't seen in four years, wanted us
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to arrive the night before so we could get reacquainted, rest a
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little, and go through our gear together. Thanks to some very
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determined driving by Paul, we did get to the trailhead by 7:30 in
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the morning.
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When Paul and I moved away from Barbara four years ago, Bill was
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only one among several of Barbara's boyfriends. They got married a
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year later. I was very curious about the man who finally landed the
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infamous man-killer.
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They were in good spirits, packs ready to go, dressed for the
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heat in their Patagonia hiking shorts. Barbara had what looked like
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a new t-shirt from Ipanema. I couldn't tell what Bill's was.
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Paul and I still had some sorting to do to distribute the pack
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weight. Paul's mood - bad even before we left town - was not
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improved by the drive. Since he would carry the tent, he decided I
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was to carry all the food for nine days for the two of us. there
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wasn't much choice. I knew any food I gave him to carry he would
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just leave behind. The rationality of irrationality.
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Small-boned Barbara was somewhat dwarfed by her brand new high
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tech silver pack with a frame extension that went over her hips and
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took the weight off her slender shoulders. Bill had a scruffy
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ancient pack, with years' worth of attachments he had apparently sewn
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on himself. Unlike Paul, he was clearly carrying most of the weight
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for them.
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Barbara spread a tarp on the ground by our car to help me sort
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our gear, while Paul fussed with his clothes in the back of the
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wagon.
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She got down on all fours to help me make piles. Even in that
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position she looked natural and poised. Her red hair fell in light
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curls over a fine broad face with high cheekbones. And her legs
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would be the envy of a woman ten years younger - slender with subtle,
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well-shaped muscles.
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"Shar, I've looked forward to this trip more than anything else
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in years," she said. "Oh, this sun shower you brought - we have one,
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so you probably won't need it. It only takes a half hour for the
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water to get hot in this weather."
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"OK. Too much weight." I paused. "I've missed you too, Barb.
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A lot. I didn't realize how much until I saw you."
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Bill noticed that our tent wasn't well packed and offered to
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repack it for us. I helped him pull it out of its bag. I had never
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seen Bill in shorts before. He certainly wasn't a looker like
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Barbara or Paul, but there was something very pleasing - even
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reassuring - about his body and the way he carried himself. He
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seemed completely comfortable with himself and was quite
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inconspicuously nice-looking. His dark eyes were intriguing.
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I watched Bill take the tent over to a clear area and spread it
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out, then turned to Barbara. Under my breath I said, "I hope Paul
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gets with the program."
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On cue, Paul noticed that I had packed only one pair of wool
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socks for him and seethed.
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"Can't I trust you to do one simple thing? Now what am I going
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to do?"
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"Sorry, honey," I said, "I looked for the others, but forgot to
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ask you."
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"That doesn't solve the problem, does it?"
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I didn't respond, but went over to help Bill fold our tent. He
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smiled warmly, and I could see that he was very happy I could come on
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the trip. He got a little confused folding the tent, because he was
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admiring my legs as I moved around pulling the tent out and laying
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out the folds. I did the high jump in college, and still like the
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exercise of climbing stairs for hours, so my legs are well-developed,
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with long ripply muscles.
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"What's the plan for the trip, Bill," I asked.
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"We'll go up to the notch - about four hours - then take off
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cross country over a ridge to my hidden lake. Pretty tough with the
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packs, especially through a rocky patch. But it's only us and the
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bears there. We can explore from the lake."
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"Is it isolated enough for us to go native?"
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"I always do."
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Paul called me back before we finished, "C'mere. What's this?"
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"Dried papaya. You can at least carry the snacks."
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"It's yours. I won't eat it. If you want it, you carry it.
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I'm going to take a leak."
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Paul - still handsome and lean-legged with a blond surfer look -
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was anything but a surfer. He seemed to hate exercise now that he no
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longer played sports - he stopped in law school in fact, and worked
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without let up. How I wished that his beautiful body would be warmer
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and more intimate!
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Barbara came over to help me finish packing. When I knew her
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ten years ago in college, I yearned to have her physical grace. I
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was the athlete, but she had the moves. When I had told her so, she
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stammered that no, I was the magnetic, beautiful one. She said she
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wished she had my strong, fast legs and broad shoulders to do the
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show-stopping athletic things her slender, shapely legs and small
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shoulders could not. Funny - we each wanted to be in the other's
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body.
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After an hour, we were ready. Paul locked the car and threw his
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pack on his back. "Let's go!"
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Barbara looked at me sympathetically, "Well, Sharon, we'll
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soften him up."
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I could only roll my eyes. "Bill doesn't seem to need
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softening." She grinned broadly and started up the trail.
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Bill gestured for me go ahead of him. I didn't mind, since I
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knew he would be admiring my legs, and I needed some appreciation
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after getting the brush-off from Paul for a week.
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I was surprised three years ago when Barbara married such a
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seemingly ordinary guy, since she had gone through quite a few of the
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big men on campus at Stanford, then fast-track doctors, corporate
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lawyers, industrial heirs, Stanford professors, and others I lost
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track of.
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I thought at the time that she must have wanted to be married to
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a scientist, since she was a good molecular biologist. Bill was some
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sort of physicist at Berkeley on a special fellowship so he didn't
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have to teach. Barbara said something about strings, or
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superstrings.
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Me? I'm just a programmer. Or rather, a Senior Software
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Systems Engineer, at NASA.
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Paul was hiking fast. He should with that light pack! Bill
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began humming some Balkanish songs, while I looked for butterflies.
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And compared Barbara's beauty ahead of me to theirs. With her fluid
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motion she was moving up the trail quickly, without seeming effort.
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Miles went by as my attention flitted back and forth among the
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butterflies, daddy longlegs, strange mushrooms, and Barbara's
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hypnotic legs.
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Barbara was slight, but she was surprisingly strong, as I had
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discovered during some roughhousing in college. I put on a spurt and
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caught up with her.
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I wondered if she was still happy with just one man. She had
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never let any man date her exclusively.
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"Hi. So is Bill it for you?"
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"Ummm." She glanced at my face. "What do you mean?" She
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looked around to see that Bill was out of earshot. Paul was well
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ahead.
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"Well, I mean you were never with just one man before. Does
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that change with marriage? I was pretty much one guy at a time, so
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marriage isn't such a big change for me."
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"Who's happy all the time?" She paused for a moment. "Remember
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Kevin?"
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"Sure," I said, "he was the jealous one."
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"Possessive, not jealous. Once, he almost got me to get rid of
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the others. We kept in touch even after I met Bill. About a year
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ago Bill was totally absorbed in a research problem, always logged
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into the supercomputer center, and I was ravenous, so I gave Kevin a
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call."
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"Oh, oh. Did Bill find out?"
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"I told him. He said it was OK. He knows he can't be all
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things to me all the time. And I can't to him. Anyway, Kevin liked
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it so much..."
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"Didn't he always!"
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"...that he just moved in. I got so bad with two men under one
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roof that I was pestering Bill more than before."
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"Even with Kevin there?"
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"Uh huh. But it was too good to last. Kevin got possessive
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again."
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"And not Bill?"
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"How could he? He was getting more of me than he did before."
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"Men don't need too much excuse to get possessive."
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"Bill's bigger than that. You'll see when you get to know him.
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Anyway, Kevin couldn't stand it and moved out after six months. Too
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bad. Couldn't share, silly boy."
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It was a hot day, and Barbara's t-shirt was starting to stick to
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her lovely breasts, so that I could see her nipples. I took a peek
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when I could.
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"You were happy? It wasn't just sex?"
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"Oh yes, happy. "
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"And now?"
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She smiled. "Bill's about perfect, as far as I'm concerned."
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"Don't advertise your man. Paul can do his own advertising, I
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don't care. I could use a spare."
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"Ooohh. Slam."
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"So how did you work it? Two men, I mean."
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"We tried a schedule, but I was too horny for that." Barbara
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blushed slightly. "No schedule for me."
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"Like, did the other have to take a walk, or what?"
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"For a while, I thought I ought to be considerate and screw only
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when the other one was gone. But that was too complicated, and it
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was unnecessary anyway. So we just did it impromptu. When we could,
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I liked it all of us together, the threesome. I hadn't done that
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before. There's nothing else like it. Men taste different, feel
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different, and move different. You just bounce from one to the
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other, getting higher and higher."
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"Mmmm? Give me a blow by blow sometime... so to speak."
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"I will. I will."
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The sound of boots behind had been getting louder. I looked
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around and saw Bill closing.
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"You two are slowing up. Must be interesting."
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Barbara started to respond, but instead looked for Paul. "Our
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fierce leader seems to be slowing, too. Isn't this the notch?"
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Bill said, "Yes. The end of the dusty trail for us. And it's
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time for lunch. We need energy for the cross-country. Whoa, Paul!
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Let's eat here where we have the view."
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Paul came stomping back without expression. I told him, "We're
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going to be together for a week. You can't be a grump."
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He pretended to smile and sat down with his lunch. I sat down
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beside him and began to eat. An orange-black butterfly landed on my
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foot. "Look!" I shouted.
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"Monarch," Paul clipped.
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Barbara looked over "No, Paul, that's a Viceroy. See the black
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band on the wings?" Bill concurred.
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Paul jumped to his feet. "OK. That's it. I didn't want to
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come on this trip with a bunch of know-it-alls. And now I'm not
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going to. Goodbye." And he hoisted his pack and headed down the
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trail.
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I sat there in shock. Bill yelled, "Stop. We need you." But
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Paul was already out of sight around the bend.
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Bill said we shouldn't try to follow him, and I agreed. I
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didn't want to be with him any more than they did. Paul had the car
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keys and the money, so he could do what he wanted.
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"We'll wait for an hour, then head for the lake. If he doesn't
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come back, Barbara and I can share our supplies with you. Nice you
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have the food. We have a three person tent. A bit tight, but we'll
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be OK."
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As the hour passed, I felt better and better about Paul's
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tantrum. In fact I was feeling downright giddy. Bill was so
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comforting. Not a trace of condescension in that man. He put his
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arm around me and Barbara sat with me. We talked about old times,
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how beautiful it was up here in the mountains, anything. Nothing
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could be better than a week with these two happy, funny friends.
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Before we knew it over an hour had passed. Bill showed us both
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where the route to his lake went. He gave me his whistle in case I
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ever got out of sight. I lifted my bare but dirty right leg up
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against his belly, and he playfully grabbed it. "With these logs, I
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should be able to follow you anywhere."
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He laughed and was slow to let go. I would have fallen if
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Barbara hadn't grabbed my waist, also laughing. I began to giggle,
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fell down, and took them with me.
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The trip to the lake was much harder than it looked, especially
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with packs. We made it only as it was getting dark. Bill rapidly
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put up the tent behind a huge boulder while Barbara and I went to the
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lake to get water to brush our teeth and wash up. We all had a quick
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snack, strung up the food away from the bears, and were in bed in a
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few minutes.
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The tent was a long tubular affair that I hadn't seen before,
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like an old quonset hut. With all the packs at the foot end, there
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was plenty of room for three people to stretch out abreast. We laid
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out our sleeping pads and bags. I stripped down to my panties and t-
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shirt and lay down on top of my sleeping bag, because the tent was
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still so warm. I took the right side since I always slept that way
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with Paul, and went right to sleep.
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I was having a dream of slipping naked through a warm forest in
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which men and women came out from behind the trees as I was passing
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and caressed me on the legs, ass, belly, and breasts. Very turned
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on, I woke up to a rustling noise seeming to come from outside of the
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tent. It was very bright, like daylight.
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I sat up part way. "What's that?" I whispered.
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There was a muffled giggle and the rustling stopped. I turned
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to look for Barbara and Bill, but only Bill was lying beside me,
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naked. He looked like a guilty little boy.
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Barbara was crouched down by the packs between Bill's legs,
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holding his large erection by her face, looking up at me with a big
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smile. I just stared. By what I now realized to be moonlight,
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Bill's cock looked huge. Then I saw it start to go soft in Barbara's
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hand.
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Quickly she said, "Don't ruin this, Shar. Kiss him." She
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wiggled his softening cock. "Fix this thing."
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I turned to Bill, not quite knowing what to do. He looked at me
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half in confusion, half in anticipation. I started to roll over
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toward him. "Hurry!" Barbara urged.
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I put my right hand on his cheek and rolled it toward me as I
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leaned over him on one elbow and lowered my lips to his. He kissed
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back tentatively at first, then put his arm around my back under my
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t-shirt and pulled me firmly to him. This was a man who knew how to
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kiss! A warm feeling spread through my already tingling belly and
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cunt.
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Some pleased sounds came from below. I broke off and looked
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down at Barbara, who was kissing an erection returned to its original
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glory. She began sucking the head and nibbling around it as Bill
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pulled me back toward him. He grabbed my t-shirt with both hands and
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pulled it off. I pressed against him and lowered my tender nipples
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to his face.
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I've always been proud of my breasts. They didn't shrivel up
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when I was in track, like some others did. If a man wanted my heart,
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he had to pay proper attention to my breasts as well as my mind!
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Bill was already writhing from the excruciating pleasure Barbara
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was giving him, but he knew a lively pair of breasts when he saw it.
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He began gently kissing around one nipple while brushing the other
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with his fingertips. I moaned, put my hand on his side and pressed
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my cunt up against him, hard, and began to rub.
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In moments Bill began nibbling one nipple while rubbing the
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other between his fingertips. He knew I wasn't going to be a slow
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one. It took my breath away, and I began to gasp.
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Barbara raised up from her enthusiastic efforts at doing I don't
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know what all to Bill's big ice cream cone. While still holding it
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in a grip of death, she put a hand under my panties and began to tug
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them down. I wriggled to help her and in seconds they were off.
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I threw a leg over Bill's to get it between my thighs. He
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pulled it up tight against my cunt. I got up on all fours with his
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raised thigh against my cunt, my nipple in his mouth (only tall girls
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can do this!), as Barbara rubbed his cock against my thigh and
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stroked my ass with a light feathery touch.
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This was too much for me. I thrust my cunt quick and hard
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against Bill's thigh once, twice, three times. Everything went hazy
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and I could hear my voice from far away in a little high-pitched
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scream that just went up and up until I couldn't stand it anymore.
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There were shuddering moans and I remember biting Bill on the
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shoulder.
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I lay on my side by Bill, my arms folded over my breasts, and
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Barbara stretched out on top of him cradled between his legs, with
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her arm around me, pulling me close. I kissed Bill's chest in long,
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slow kisses as I felt the peace come over me.
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Barbara had Bill's still engorged cock pressed against her cunt
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and she began to move against it, her breath catching as she got it
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right up against her clit. I snuggled closer, not wanting to be left
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out. Barbara stroked my hair as she pressed up and down against
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Bill's hard cock. She got a far-away look in her eye.
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I began to stroke her ass with the same delicate touch she had
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given me. She pulled my head toward her, leaned over and gave me I
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think the longest, deepest kisses I have ever gotten. She devoured
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me. I reached in between her legs, found Bill's cock, and pressed it
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harder against her cunt.
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She groaned and writhed and pressed her face into Bill's chest.
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Bill was raking her back with his fingernails and digging his fingers
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into her buttocks and pressing her to him. She raised up slightly
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and began to move rapidly against Bill's cock. Her perfect breasts
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hung down and rippled with her vibrations. Her breath was coming
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fast.
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While I held Bill's cock in place with two fingers, and moved my
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palm back and forth gently over Barb's buns, I moved my other arm
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under his head and kissed him with the same deep kisses Barbara had
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given me. He clearly loved being devoured, too, for his breath
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became ragged and he groaned and clutched at Barbara and me.
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Barbara started to nibble his ear, but gave up, whimpered, and
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began vibrating very rapidly. Noises I never had heard from her
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emerged from somewhere deep in her chest. Not a groan, not a scream,
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not a shout. Whatever it was, it came rolling out of her over and
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over as she quivered and slowly stroked her cunt up and down Bill's
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cock as I held it against her.
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Then she fell against Bill and was perfectly still, utterly
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relaxed. "I can't move," she murmured. In moments she was asleep.
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Bill let her slip off to the other side of him and covered her with
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the flap of her sleeping bag.
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Having pleased his women, he was now set on pleasing himself.
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He pushed me back onto my bag and buried his face in my breasts,
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belly, and cunt. He crouched over me, his thighs pressing my flanks
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while he scooped my head and shoulders into his arms and kissed every
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square inch he could reach.
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"Sharon, I don't know how this could happen so fast, but I think
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I love you."
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"Oh, no, not a line after this beautiful loving," I thought. I
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looked hard at his face. Perhaps I saw traces of love there.
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He was rubbing his wonderful hard cock against my belly and
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chest. I suddenly needed it, and reached for it to bring it to my
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mouth so I could give it the same love and attention Barbara gave it
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earlier.
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But he pulled it away, moved down, and placed its shining head
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against my cunt, pressing it gently against me. I reached down to
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hold it, wiggled slightly and he was in. I pulled him to me, burying
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him in my hungry cunt all the way.
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He stopped right there, holding perfectly still. I began
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massaging his cock with my vagina, grabbing the base and rippling up
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to the head, as if I were milking a goat on my uncle's farm. I
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wasn't a trained athlete for nothing. I held his face in front of me
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so I could watch his expression while I did this. He was feeling it
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as deeply as I was.
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This boy was a real lover. Most men won't sit still for this
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sort of thing for very long. But he held back and let it work its
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magic on him. And on me. Soon I was clearly having an orgasm, but
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not the wrenching kind that leaves you drained. It emanated from my
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cunt (or clit - I couldn't tell which) like a warm subsonic buzz
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making my whole body hum, or like a low-level electric shock. I
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shuddered, closed my eyes and visualized the fire racing around my
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nerves.
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Bill began to move inside me, which caused the fire to race
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faster, but steady, steady. His cock seemed to fill me, to fill more
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than my cunt. His cock expanded to fill my whole body. I was his
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cock and his cock was me. We were on the same endless wheel of fire.
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He moved up and stroked the length of his cock hard against my
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clit. I spasmed uncontrollably again and again, and still it would
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not quit.
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After a time he put my legs over his broad, strong shoulders and
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moved deeply inside me. I could feel him at the gates. My cunt was
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seizing him again and again, as he held and held, moving only
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slightly.
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Then I began to sob. I don't know why. Perhaps the body wasn't
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built to stand so much pleasure for so long.
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He began long, slow, powerful, deep strokes. Now at last I
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could concentrate on him. He groaned, then growled. I saw movement
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out of the corner of my eye. Barbara was up on one elbow watching
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us. Bill was unaware. He was unaware of anything except the cunt-
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thrusting urgency in his loins.
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There was a slight hesitation. He grabbed my shoulders and
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started to truly batter me. I thought I was strong, but at this
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moment he was more than strong, he was overwhelming. He began to
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scream, a high scream, them a low scream, then he twisted around as
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if in a death agony, his head flung back, and gurgled. Then he
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seized me with more strength than I thought possible, as I grasped
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him firmly with my powerful legs to protect myself, and he just
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seemed to go over the edge thrusting into me like Secretariat and
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howling strange noises. This seemed to go on forever, then suddenly
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it was over. He collapsed, completely winded, his cock still hard
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inside me. In a minute he rolled off between me and Barbara.
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Barbara edged over and together we warmed him as his breath
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returned to normal, and held him between us. She covered us all with
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a sleeping bag. We held hands on his belly. As I drifted off to
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sleep, I could not imagine what might happen the rest of the week.
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This instant, I was truly happy.
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