“You’re Something Special.” Letter to Reader Title Page About the Author Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Epilogue Copyright
“You’re Something Special.”
Frank watched her, and his eyes and face were soft and gentle.
Geri just looked at him.
He told her, “I wish—”
She waited.
He continued to look at her in that same soft way.
She asked, “What is it that you...wish?”
He shook his head. He was still and said nothing more.
She asked again, “What exactly are you talking about that you wish?”
So he finally said the truth. “I’d take you away to a private place and make love to you.”
“I don’t do that sort of thing. I wouldn’t until I was safely married.”
“You haven’t—? At all?” His mouth was open. He couldn’t believe what she’d said. She was a virgin? He was boggled.
But he also couldn’t get his eyes off her. She truly was something special, and he would do well to be very careful with her.
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The Catch of Texas
Lass Small
LASS SMALL
finds living on this planet at this time a fascinating experience. People are amazing. She thinks that to be a teller of tales of people, places and things is absolutely marvelous.
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There’s a saying known by its four letters—TGIF or Thank God It’s Friday. Well, that isn’t exactly what women have in mind. Their definition of the quote is: Thank God I’m Female.
Men are slow and think it’s another quote entirely. But then, men are different from women.
Now Geri Jones was a normal woman and saw life as it was. At an early age, she was baffled by males. As time went along, she watched them silently. When she matured, she found all men are thataway! There is no change! Men are strange.
Just try to take a man to a concert when there’s a baseball game! They go to that.
Their... grandmother...is ill. That’s what they say when they leave the office.
It was after Geri was adult that she had TGIF put on her car license plate. She’d looked at males since she was ten, and she had never understood any, nor had she been snared by any one of them.
She searched. The town in TEXAS where Geri lived was big enough. Something over a million people. A good number to paw through and select some interesting males. She was thoughtful, considering, and careful. But
