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Show A9f We dressed and went down to the beach. Lake Michigan was clear and cold, without sharks. We went there ofCten that summer, turning brown in the sun, then back to the apartment and with eyes, mouth, hands worshipped those parts sun-untouched. On hot summer nights we strolled down to Jackson Park or rode the bus to Grant Park to hear the free concerts. We visited the Museum of Science and Industry, the Aquarium, the Planetarium, the Field Museum, often the Art Institute. We went shopping in the great Loop department stores and there pressed close together in the crowds I would pat her flank, her rear. On the street I sometimes dropped back to walk behind her so that I could watch her beautiful derriere. In all ways I was aware of her. Inside the hot summer apartment she grew marvelously casual about skin, sleeping naked, walking about in panties or in nothing, free as a niaid, naked as Eve in our small Eden. I studied ©U.V **•'*»*' !«/*««, *md breasts and back all summer long^her skin glowdd with sun and being seen, exposed to invite my touch. It was Eden all right. I had dreamed of having a ristress but the dream was as smoke to the solid woman's flesh. I wasn't as casual. I slept naked too, as a lover should, but I thought often of how when came the knocking of the MOuaovtAiree- at the door I could quickly jump into ray pants. With all the windows open, now and then I did worry about $JS£ talk, our laughter, our lovemaking. Did people on the street stop and look up at our dark, shouting windows? And I worried about Carrie, trying harder than ever to avoid her. No longer could I pretend I was a cousin; gasxxxxsxxxHgx instead I tried to pretend not to see her. She saw me. She would stop and stare, fixing me in her eye, sternly disapproving. Her husband, whom I saw less often, glowered at me as if he was aching to take a poke at me. Always I listened with half an ear for the cops. I preferred us dressed, just friends talking in the afternoon. One day UHy Bvtdkx she remembered the time I had had dinner with her and *MktftAvftioire*ABi in ^ftaJKaA* and how l a t e r that evening H***« and Rex Gilbert had gone dancing at |