Nothing strange about this woman redoing her lips. I looked as much as awoman as I had ever had this past week. I thought: Gee, I am going tolove goin...g to the Beauty Salon tomorrow with my mother. And I will be asstacked as she.After giving Mary Lou and the nurse air kisses following my lipstickapplication, I followed Mother and my tits out the door and into the warmbreeze of the beach air. Even the breeze seemed to find a new way to wraparound my body. There was a new contour which diverted. EDIE RAINESTwo words burning into my retina, everything else just a jumble of shapes and forms. Sobs, trapped for eternity in my stomach erupt through me, mouth panting my loss, chest heaving, legs trembling beneath my sorrow. Turning, I grab Claude, push my drenched face into the warmth of his chest, fling my arms around him desperate to feel his life affirming heartbeat beneath my cheek.“I miss her.”It is a tiny mew lost amongst sobs; my tear filled mouth murmuring it into the soft wool of. They were all like that. Nobody knew what that medal meant to him.He knew very little about this one. Rachel Barrett, age 19. Cute, long red hair, lots of presence on the ice. She had been part of a promising young team up until a year and a half ago when her partner blew his knee out, and decided to retire from skating. She had been partnerless since then, and, when she heard that the best male pairs skater in the USA was looking for a new partner, she just had to call and request a tryout.She. “She decided she wanted to be intimate from the first night. We’re keeping it mostly to ourselves because she knows Kara’s coming here next Summer. Basically, Elyse felt we’d end up in bed eventually, and rather than have all the tension, she just decided to do it the very first night.”Jennifer laughed softly, “Why am I not surprised? The legendary Steve Adams’ sexual prowess just can’t be resisted!”“Funny! I do have a secret to tell you, but you can never, ever repeat it. You’re the only one.