I would never have admitted to my own mother, that I had been walking down that path to the beach, naked. Joan accepted that I meant no offence to any...one I might have come across. She understood that I enjoyed the freedom, and independence, of nudity. She even suggested that it might have been more honest to have continued walking, when I had heard the other people, and apologise for any unintended offence, when and if we met. I would never have spoken about my few, brief, experimental. The perfect one. The sunset has painted the sky in a vast array of reds, oranges, and pinks but the beauty is lost on you as your need to find her becomes overwhelming. You haven't played the game in the years, not since your release from prison. You promised them you wouldn't do it again...but your heart is pounding, your head is swimming, every core instinct in your body tells you to find her. You've been searching for years, for the ultimate doll. The ones you thought might have been her. During dinner, a glee club from a South Carolina college sang songs of the South from the Civil War period. At the end of dinner, JL introduced Sandy as the featured speaker."Gentlemen," he concluded, "it gives me great pride and pleasure to introduce to you a true daughter of the Confederacy. Her great-great granddad fought with Stonewall Jackson and was wounded at Chancellorsville where General Jackson was killed. Gentlemen, the Chairman of the Board of Murphy Manufacturing Company, the owner. The amazing part of this scenario is I didn’t care what he thought of my appearance. I just slowly opened my hand with letter inside. As I raised my head to look him in the eye, he dropped his head into the palms of his hands. I heard a distorted, ‘I am so sorry K’. I still couldn’t speak. I continued to sit there with my palm held out towards him. Silence lingered between us for I don’t know how long, but I refused to utter a single word. Finally, he turned his full body towards me and spoke..