I learned where she was going after she left; I only knew that she was travelling for a few days in the middle of the week. XXX Hot “No,” I said, not sure just what to say. (Family resemblance would not have helped, since Melissa took after her mother.)
As it happened, my not knowing who she was made her father look on me more favorably as somebody to go out with his daughter. All I saw at first was long legs, long pretty brown hair, a slightly broad face, and then the intelligence that showed when she opened her mouth. He got out a shirt, definitely of the right age and matching one that Marvin Baker wore on a record album cover of his. (Psychological compensation for his having a small penis, it was said.) He was killed at the height of
