We often used to pass in the car park or on the stairs and pass the time of day but because of Davids age, I always took care to avoid situations that... might put us alone together, although he had once or twice loitered with me on the landing, as if he hoped I would ask him in. He seemed to like me and he was a nice, well-behaved and studious chap but apart from adoring his cute face and his young trim body, I was old enough to be his father and I felt a bit sorry for him because his mother did. These young men both held a tray and on the tray looked to be a couple of plastic containers. I didn’t know for sure at the time but I had the idea it was oil or sunscreen. I had seen this before on our trips where the pool stewards would come buy with the products offering to apply lotion to someone’s back or arms not really with the intention of preventing sunburn but more so in the effort to sell you the product at some exorbitant markup and also getting a tip. But what is vastly different. We get access to our trust funds when we turn 20, right? We were going to wait a year to go to college; we get our money and go to college together, at a college that's in some other state. I won't be showing for about two to three months ... Let me see ... your birthday is in three weeks. How much is in your Trust Account?" Let me go get my statement. I just got one, today." OK, hurry!" Here it is, Holy Shit — I never paid attention to the dollar amount before. Five fucking million dollars! We. When she saw me and I saw her, our eyes widened. We smiled at one another. She smiled because, like I said, we were good friends back in high school. We hung out a lot but as life has it, we lost touch. Pushing her cart out to her “car” was a treat and a half. She told me, unequivocally, that it was a treat and a half to see me around. She told me her and her husband were now separated. He is a traveling salesman and found a way to “expand” his sales meaning he’d met other women and bedded down.
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