... Continued from Part One.

     How do you explain something which words cannot explain? How would you convey to someone all the beauty, the joy, the whirpool of emotions, the sensory bliss, all the powerful and totally awesome feelings a human soul can feel? Would you draw pictures? No, that's no good. Mime? No. Nothing I could say or do would envelope your heart and mind the way my own being was wrapped up, basted, and cooked over a low flame for 4 hours with occasional stirring. He rocked my world, capiche? Yes, it's only words ... but words are all I have ... to take your heart away.

     I stepped out of the tub into a huge, fluffy towel, which Chuck wrapped around me in a great big bear hug of heat. He held me there, and seemed to squeeze the chill out of me. He smiled as he released me and whispered, "I want you clean when you come in here," and he took my hand and led me down the hall. It struck me that he hadn't spoken in a long time. I shivered as I walked, but it was not fear or cold that made me tremble.

     We glided into a warm, dark, richly carpeted room that was so beautiful and so large, the sight of it made me swoon. Charlton clutched my shoulders as I fell, and smiling his knowing smile, he hoisted me into his arms and carried me across the floor. Light jazz — square, but not unbearable — swirled softly in the shadows, and I found myself again with no sense of time. It could have been high noon or midnight, I couldn't have cared less. Chuck laid me gently on the settee in the corner. He straightened up above me, looking for all the world like a Grecian God, glowing in the moonlit room. He beamed at me radiantly as he turned to some sort of a cabinet built into the wall to my left. His eyes never left mine as he punched numbers in a keypad and said, "It's been a long time since I've shared this with anyone." Then he turned and reached into the wall.

     If you've never seen a truly majestic, powerful weapon in the firm, sensitive grip of a real man, then you just haven't lived. The Sig Sauer P226 9mm Luger is a high-capacity, double column, semi-automatic handgun with a double-action trigger and a patented, automatic firing-pin lock. It has a 4.4 inch barrel, and it holds a 15-round clip. It is the Corvette of handguns; sleek and sporty, yet potent enough to blow the shit out of anybody or anything that gets in your way. Of course, I didn't know any of this then. I didn't know anything at all, it seemed. But Charlie changed all that. Charlie changed everything for me. Charlie taught me about guns.

     To be continued ....

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