This story took place in another era - in the 1950’s before television brought sex and violence into every home affecting the minds and morals of the innocent. Kim, a major character, was in her twenties and still a virgin. Tim, a devout Catholic also in his 20’s had pledged his life to his church and was in a seminary studying for the priesthood. It was a time when society was controlled by respected and revered establishments, the police, the church, the schools and the government. To most people it was inconceivable that any of these organization could be corrupt. A bad apple now and then but the organizations themselves were universally held in high esteem. Sex was a taboo subject. There was no sex education classes and children grew to adulthood without exposure to much of what today’s adolescence take for granted. Oral sex, for instance, was almost unheard of. `Girls, at least “nice girls” never used vulgar profanity . You might think these characters are anomalies whereas in truth they were fairly typical of young people in that period according to my research. This was the setting in which the following took place.
Jean and I had become fast friends and I spent a lot of time at her house on weekends and after work. I knew she had a brother, Tim, who was away at a seminary but I had never met him. In May he came home for the summer vacation and Jean introduced me to him as “my most holy brother”. He blushed, smiled and pleasantly greeted me. He was nothing like I expected and I was immediately smitten with him. He had an angelic face and soft black curly and expressive eyes that glowed when he smiled. ”My God, “ I thought ” this gorgeous human being is going to disappear into the religious life? What a waste”
Not long after I met him I was visiting Jean in her bedroom and I casually asked her where her brother was . She answered, “ I’m not sure. I think he’s in the living room. Why? Are you interested?”
“Wouldn’t you be if your weren’t his sister?”
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