"So, give me the straight dish, man, is it true that you and Dede have called it quits?"I had to assume that Tanner had heard this from Kathy. I saw n...o reason to deny that we'd broken up, so I told him it was true."Lame move, man. And, for a bogus reason, from what I'm hearing. Why get yourself tied up into knots over what she did in the past? You can't change any of it, so why even keep bringing it up to her?" What exactly have you heard?" I was a bit unsettled that Dede had been talking about. Mother Nature is a bitch and fifty years of feminism cannot override instinctual behavior that took millions of years to be hardwired into the female brain. Simply put, just because a woman is a die-hard Feminist doesn’t mean she wants another woman to take her husband or boyfriend, even if she doesn’t give a damn about the boyfriend or husband in question. She’s hardwired to compete for him and she’s got no control over that. She feels jealousy when the man she considers hers, even if she. But Dan’s face was turned away from me and he was fast asleep – oblivious of my need. I would have to save myself. I sat twisting the chair slightly back and forth – little movements while my eyes watched Dan sleep. I sat and watched and took what comfort I could from watching him. The sister in me wanted to pull the blankets up so he’d be warm. The little girl in me wanted to wake him and crawl into his arms so he could hold me. The artist in me wanted to draw the clean lines of his sculpted. She went willingly with Norma and Barbara, and they had just stepped into the tub when Paul walked over, naked. This time, Mary did fall, but since she was in the water, there was no harm.Seeing a naked man other than her husband was a jolt to Mary, but it was comical when he started explaining how the guys had to be naked in the water, just like the women, and how they were required to join the women daily. Mary looked at him like he was some alien creature and she could not believe he was.