After dinner she said, “You never did show me your music collection.”I smiled and led her to my CD racks, which she had eyed a few times in the pa...st before our interest in each other made the rest of the world disappear. We spent two hours going through the first three racks, listening to some of our favorites as we talked about her favorites, and she asked, “Have you ever made love to Mendelssohn?”“Hmm, a couple of times.”“Which piece?”“Violin Concerto.”“Of course. I hope she flowed like the. Then started washing myself, not as roughly as I did yesterday, no, that was different…… Yesterday after coming back from “therapy” I jumped immediately in the shower and gave myself a long and thorough scrub down, cleaning every inch, every crevice and every hole twice and then twice again, still feeling dirty and used. I was practically punishing myself for performing all those acts that he demanded of me, letting myself be touched in all those places and ways, I was punishing my body for. "I try my best."Gabrielle turned to Alex, "He's right though. There's nothing more wecan do now. Go below and try to get some sleep. We'll take the firstwatch."They sat in silence for a while after Alex had gone. Finally Gabrielleturned to the black teenager who was really a veteran Russian cosmonaut."How do your friends deal with your swap? If you don't mind me asking."Anatoly shrugged. "To be honest, I never had that many friends and myclosest ones died a few years back. The rest... well,. " Why?"I shrugged and said, "I need to listen to someone and oddly you remind me of an old girlfriend too. It feels like I know you already."She gave me a strange look and began. "I was working as a school nurse and he was a teacher. We dated a while, broke up, and got back together. We were engaged." Did something happen to him?" He got sick and died."I could see sadness in her eyes. I was sorry to bring back the old memory, but I was too curious."I'm sure he loved you very much," I.