I want love. I want to be cherished. People marry to be together, to have someone to come home to … where ever that home may be, it should be with t...he other. Nothing else should really matter. I want, to look across a crowded room, into his eyes, and feel a connection. When I look up and find his eyes on me, his gaze twisting around mine, tripping over me, landing on the placed I love to be touched most. What I have when I look across that crowded room is someone who glances at me briefly,. "I hope it wasn't too hard." Lisa shook her head. "I held back a lot but this thing is wicked and it doesn't take much. You know when Lewis and Clark made their trip something happened a few weeks after they left that required several of the men to be disciplined. They used willow switches - probably heavier than these, though - and made the men run a gauntlet naked. And they were trying to really hurt, not just tease. So this is obviously harsh enough for real discipline of hardened frontier. Mrs. Carson called Jane over to have a private talk with her daughter. We said our good byes and they wished their daughter good luck and we were off to the school. Never found out what mom said to her being a gentleman of course, I never asked.Everything was still set up from last night, I just had to turn on the amplifier to let them tubes warm up then put on the elevator music until show time. We had a disk jockey from a local Rock and Roll station to be master of ceremonies. You remember. Richie seemed content to make his way through the bar, chatting to each family memeber as he went. I went along with it for a bit, I didn't want to be rude, but in the end my lungs were calling out for some poison and I knew I would probably find Graham out there. I saw him straight away and he was chatting with some other family member. I interupted them to get a light for my cigarette and then casually hung around waiting for Graham to tear himself away. When eventually he did get away sat.
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