He had tousled blond hair and the remains of childhood acne could still be seen in places around his nose and cheeks.“Gosh, this looks a bit swell. ...The chaps have kind of outlined in a way what might be expected, but gosh, it’s all so exciting, eh?”Teddy nodded. Despite his youth, Alfie carried quite a bit of excess weight and the bulge of his stomach was noticeable over the waistband of his trousers.“Have the boys explained everything to you? You’re happy for it to go ahead?”Teddy actually. The woman from CPS looked stunned for a moment.“These are all kids under your care?” she said incredulously.“No, like I said, we had visitors for dinner, and the kids had some friends over studying. This is Nora Hollabrad and her daughter Vicki, who were visiting. Also Tami Smith and her sister Judy Smith were over visiting Caspian and Tina, respectively.”“Tina Grey is a name I have on my list,” the woman said, trying to regain some control.“What’s going on?” Tina asked, concerned.“We are here. The doubts began to build in my head. What if I’m just having extreme infatuation? I could be making a fool of myself! But the feeling was so strong, the feeling that you can’t deny or fake or find if you try as hard as you can. You either feel it or you don’t, and I felt it. I was extremely attracted to this woman, and I felt like I was already in love with her. I wanted her, and I had to know if she felt it too. I let her know that I was free for a few hours, and that I would be in my hotel. It was actually rather touching.So in they came. We ordered some Thai food for them and I drank a little bourbon and watched and actually enjoyed their company. They were both intelligent and widely read (at least by modern standards) people who could discuss politics, art, music — whatever, and keep me amused.We had a fairly pleasant evening together and I was feeling much better by the end of it.Around 9:00 that evening I was about to retreat to my ‘private space’, my bedroom, sitting.