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Show 75 Kimiko had remained, and for how long. He had barely touched har hand, much less kissed her - a bit of backwardness that had it bean known would have made his life in the barracks unbaar-able. But how could one go farther (even whan the emotions had grown so strong that thay robbed him, often, of his voice?) in an open jesp on Naka Hondori? Shrewd as ha was, adroit at a hundred feints that kept the Major's anger within bounds, his emotions hamstrung him in regards to women. For there were two men in him -- the usual one, that had drawn his ayes to Kimiko in the beginning -- and another, deeper and less articulate. Most of his colleagues seemed uncomplex: wanted sax as often as possible, wsren't Especially finicky about the dispsnssr. A good lay followed a fast approach: feed her, unclothe har, taks hsr to bsd. They hadn't coma for ths conversation. But subtly, thssa slack rituals displeased him. He had never been abls to "shack up." He could, and had, gone to bad with a number of young women, merely for the pleasures of sex, but found thess encounters hardly better than masturbation, for abovs thsm, hE ssnssd a more intricats pattern - friendship first (hs had to talk to the girl, could not stride toward bsd in bullheadsd silence), which could not ba purchased without some Arkansas-inculcated payments like admiration and respect. When, aidsd by fancy and chsmistry, frisndship changsd to love, sex altered too, grsw richer and more complete. Compared with, |