She suggested I leave the sweat pants due to the heat in the glider. No AC system - I nodded yes and obliged and after I got down to my loose fitting... gym shorts, she tightened this harness that covered my shoulders, waist, and thighs in X patterns of webbing with D ring hooks about it. It wasn’t as uncomfortable as it sounds. I had to snake my body into the plane and as the sun rose, she showed me how and helped me strap my body into place - somewhat suspended in air above where she would. So their family physician had inquired with his colleagues and they had agreed that he ought to come to Nashville to have me treat his son.Here, I must confess, the politics of being at a university medical center came into play. I had been ‘requested’ — read ‘commanded’ — by the Chief of Medicine, to handle the Adams family as diplomatically as possible. It seems that they were hoping to tap Mr. Adams for a large donation and my treatment of his son was considered to be a great opening for the. .”He paused for a moment, then continued in a much different tone of voice. It hadn’t even crossed his mind at first, but the hickey was so undeniable even he couldn’t pretend it was anything else after looking at it a couple seconds.“Wait. Why the hell do you have a hickey on your neck?” he barked sternly.“I would love to know the answer to that as well,” my mom chimed in. “Not that it’s any of your business, but I hung out with a boy after school. He got a little carried away when he kissed. Each evening he crushed a tablet and sprinkled it into the vegetables till all were used. He had no idea of what reaction a woman would do, but his wife showed no sign of altering her stand and he received the same rebuke after the tablets were finished as he had before they were introduced. 'Maybe it is me', he muttered. His wife had gone to bed; he slept in a separate room. He knew that he never was a 'ladies man'. He remembered a comment a woman he had worked with say of one of the male.
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