I almost gave up then too, on my first try.”
“You did?”
”Sure. Anna, lean over the bed. In a corner of the box, along vith a few other keepsakes, I found something that had once been very important to me, and I vish now to show it to you.”
Lifting the bottle to my lips, I drink the rest of the beer, set the bottle on the windowsill along with the previous one, and open another from the cardboard carton at my feet. It had a red strip of leather braided in vith the usual black strips so I could tell it from the others. I returned home with the first of many gifts I was to get from my customers: a miniature pirate ship in a bottle. “I know. He is not going to give up that easily, and I know it. Eventually I learned to include my tail in the performance of my duties, along vith a large array of the devices usually known as sex toys, which is particularly apt in my case.
