Two damaged souls, mending together, just the way nature intended...over coffee. Read the endnote for explanations and apologies. Otherwise, as always, enjoy!
Ian never had a girlfriend until his second year of college. Not by choice, but by circumstances. It was a tortuous trip from youth to adulthood and a career, but he persevered. This is the story of that journey.
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Tired of city life and alone, Trevor up sticks and buys a plot of land on the island of Mersea. He's told it's haunted, but he doesn't believe in ghosts.
Lucille was 41, filling her empty nest by volunteering to cater to the needs of young people with disabilities. Kanye was young, male, blind - and black. It was a simple 90 day engagement, helping a blind person deal with those things that really needed sight, somethng a lot easier than some clients she'd had to deal with - or was it? Could she cater to ALL of Kanye's needs? How far could she go before she betrayed the trust the agency placed in her?
While in the Army Peter Billingsley visits a Louisville brothel and experiences a black prostitute who becomes his sexual mentor. After his happy marriage of thirty years ends when his wife dies of cancer, he encounters Sharon Balfour, an elegant black woman, once his college student, who has been harboring a years-long crush on him and which develops into a passionate affair.
Jack Kruger has been back in Brooklyn for some time now and he yearns to return to the past and witness those battles that he had studied for so many years in his military studies. The American Civil War was fresh in his memory, but now he was focused on the American Revolution and he wanted to begin in 1775 right at the beginning in order to follow the time line in a way that made it easy for him to understand Washington's strategy. / (Reviews)