Intrigued, I returned the pressure and rotated my hips to the beat. Miraculously, he kept up. During this seductive dance, he would lean down and gent...ly run his mouth over my neck, sucking and nibbling with his five o'clock shadow tingling my sensitive flesh. All of this was down while our bodies perfectly kept up with each other, almost romantically sashaying in the center of the floor, drunk teenagers falling over each other to our sides. I felt nothing else but the heat radiating from his. In addition across the country, and around the world there were children sending letters saying that one or more of their parents were out of work and there were not going to be presents this year. The children only asked that mommy or daddy would be able to work soon. One from a Jimmy Braun in Iowa told how his dad was now drunk all the time and there would be no work even if his father was sober. Although Jimmy's letter was worse than most, almost all the letters this year had no joy. It was. They had talked about taking lovers to entertain them while their husbands were out of town, but they hadn't gotten around to doing it yet and weren't sure if they ever would. They shopped at Neiman Marcus and spent a lot of money and smiled when men stared at them as they walked down the street, tall and elegant, trim asses swinging. It might be fun to share a bed again, with two strange men--or one man, sharing him in the bed--as they had while they were at school. As long as Hank or Billy. Maybe Megan even liked me? But whynow?"Earth to Jamie." Samantha was talking to me as she walked with with Julietoward our car in the parking lot."Hi."Julie laughed. "Jamie's in love. Megan was talking to him before service." Ouuu. Jamie. Moving up in the world. Probably all the new clothes I hearyou got yesterday."Julie and Samantha shared a laugh. I got in the back seat and waited forthe two girls to finish gabbing. My mother was waiting impatiently behindthe steering wheel. "Where was.