She would shriek and tell me to put her down, but she would be laughing the whole time and breathing hard. I told her that's how I warmed up for lifti...ng weights. One time while I was picking her up she asked me if I ever did that to Helen. I said,"Why, do you think that would turn Helen on too?"My mother acted indignant and said, "No, of course not. That doesn't turn me on."I said, "Lets see if that turns you on," as I slid my hand inside the elastic waist band of the workout pants she was. After a certain point in the conversation I decided I had had enough talk and wanted a lap dance she in formed me that a dance was twenty dollars and a private on was one hundred and fifty dollars, I decided on a regular non private dance. so she takes me to a little niche and the music starts and she starts dancing on me and then takes off her top. This was this first time that I had even been this close to a woman and I had a hard on the size of Florida. After about three dances I say that. I said, “Yeah, I kind of know what you mean. My Father used to travel from time to time as well; not as much as it sounds like your Dad did, but he was gone at least a half dozen times a year for a week or two.”Cherry said, “But, where my Dad fell short, my Mom came through. She has always been there for me and has always been in my corner. She’s like my best friend.”She continued telling me all about her childhood; how she got into cheerleading as a little girl and stayed with it through. Tracy still couldn’t remember much, or chose not to remember specific parts, but she did corroborate Nick’s version of events. It took a couple of additional days, but by Friday lunch Mel and Nick could sit together in the bar and share a beer as friends bonded by a shared traumatic experience.On the surface, Tracy was of course the real victim, tortured and abused by a man whom she had considered a friend. Forget the drugs or the previous times she had spent the night with Sid. He had tied her.