”And then, twenty-some years later, Treasure and I got divorced.Back to NickiNicki knocked on my trailer door at six-thirty.“Nice digs,” she lau...ghed as I showed her in. “You must get lost in here.”“In a manner of speaking, yes. Lost to the world.”“God, it’s good to see you, Ari,” she said. She set her package on the table and turned to give me a big hug. We held it a lot longer than people hold the hug of a normal friend. It was almost as long as a daughter hug. Maddie loved to hug me and just. One night Carla and I went for a drive around town. She was wearing a T-shirt and shorts when we left (she left her sandals at home), but these came off pretty quickly and soon I had a very naked and very brazen girlfriend masturbating by my side as we cruised the mostly deserted streets.We drove out of town to a porno shop to rent some flicks (our nutty city refused to rent hardcore during those days) and Carla told me to dare her to go in wearing just the T-shirt. Of course, I dared her - and. "Hi, my name is Michelle. Is Miss Lola in?" There was no response fromthe figure other then to step back and wave me in. Inside it wasblessedly cool and dimly lit. I was ushered into a large sitting roomand left to cool off. I spied a wet bar over to one side so I went overto make a drink. Rubber encased heads adorned the corners of the bar andevery so often their eyes would widen and their heads shake a little.Gags prevented conversation. "Have to ask Lola about the d?cor ." As Iturned to sit. She danced for merchants and generals and even the new Lords and she sent me to that private school with the profits and still had enough left over that she was well on her way to buying back our estates. Then he came. The slime ball. He became her lover, then her manager and finally her betrayer. She was never any good with figures and he soon had her power of attorney. She was such an honorable woman herself that she just couldn’t imagine her lover systematically gambling away and whoring.