She was quite clear that having you as a friend was perfectly OK, but stepping over the bright line would result in her removing my gonads with a scal...pel she would borrow from biology lab. Well, once we’re a couple, which we aren’t at the moment.”“So you’re free to mess around?”“With the caveat that there are some lines which may not be crossed, including having a threesome with her friends.”Jocelyn laughed, “She said that?”“Jeannette and Marie like to tease, and they like me, and it’s clear. Daddy was a sports nut. Beyond that, he was a nut about betting on sports.We had been going to a gay bar called "las Palmas" a few towns over from where we were stationed. I loved the place. Most Germans you encountered day by day disliked the American GI's and didn't hesitate to let you know it. The Germans at las Palmas were different. Gayness seemed somehow to trump nationality.It was an odd dive really. Up front was a normal sort of bar with tables, bar stools and a TV that. She was chattel, her own son’s property, no less.“Well, now that the fidelity issue is resolved, in favor of infidelity as well as incest, there’s no point in trying to fight my desires. I want you, Bruce. I want to be your girlfriend again. Before you say it, I know what comes with the territory, though you owning your own mother totally confirms the fact. I know that you’re a pussyhound. So what?“The fact is that, cheater though you were, you were hands down the best boyfriend I ever had.. I’m not the genie from Aladdin’s lamp or any other such fairytale fantasy. Look, pay close attention to what I’m saying! You live in the here and now. Today came after yesterday, tomorrow comes after today, right?”“Um, yeah, that’s generally the way it works.”“Well, it doesn’t work that way in MY dimension. In your limited perception of the universe, you’re bound by the linear progression of time. I don’t mean that as a slight, it’s just the way you’re built, the way your mind has evolved to.