With the suitcases packed the evening prior to departure, he was very excited and hardly slept a wink all night. He was up shortly after 6am for break...fast and to load the car with what he packed. After waving farewell to his parents, he proceeded on the six hour journey that he knew very well but had never made on his own before. Fortunately, it went without a hitch. There was just the usual heavy traffic in the usual locations that he expected and the weather held up without any rain. When. Again, I really wasn’t bothered. Half of the men in this building were queers that I’d fucked so hey’d already gotten a close up look at my package. And the other half, I didn’t care about. And once I opened the door, I definitely didn’t give a damn. I couldn’t believe my eyes. It was as if my dreams were suddenly a wonderful reality.A little skinny black kid stood at my door, looking up at me with a pair of warm brown eyes. He looked like he was barely out of puberty but the light. “Had to see the solicitor. I need to look like I mean business until I get to court, then I’ll look poor! Anyway, a celebration is in order, my ex-husband just paid part of the settlement” she said, showing Lauren to the sofa.Lauren wasn’t sure how to react, assuming that Kristal was referring to her divorce, but felt under-dressed for sure. She sat down while Kristal went into the kitchen.“Do you drink Champagne? Oh, please don’t say `no’. Oh, or are you still under age?” inquired Kristal.“I’d. You see, for those of you who did not read about my sexual exploits with Spankie, I had been misdiagnosed with Lou Gerrig’s disease and the neurologists I was examined by, from three different New England states, all agreed I would be dead before I was thirty years old. I carried that diagnosis for about three years before the neurologist I was seeing took a muscle biopsy from my affected arm and determined it was not Lou Gerrig’s, but a benign virus of some nature, similar to one he had seen.