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sat and talked, in a restaurant, on a picnic table at a roadside park or sitting in his car, he touched me in some way.  It started out wit h holding hands.  T hen he hugged me like a long lost relative as we were leaving a roadside park and thanked me for being so open with him.  He was so charming.
    When we got into Savannah , he took me to a condo that he told me he had rented.  I must have looked as confused as I felt because he hugged me and said, “I want you to stay here for a few days and prepare.  We haven’t really talked about how we’re going to present you to Gracie.
    “We need to get you some green contact lenses and I want to talk to Gracie about you before I bring you over to the mansion.”
    He then took me into his arms and kissed me like I had never been kissed before.  I had received pecks on the cheek and on the mouth by men from the church who I had been out to dinner with but, nothing like this.
    I had never been French kissed before.  I know it sound crazy with me being 23 but I hadn’t.   I knew what it was but always thought it sounded gross.  But when Adam kissed me like this I was like a wet dish rag and I would have done anything he asked without question, and I did.
     
     
     
    CHAPTER SIX
    I stayed in the condo for four days.  It was beautiful and it was on the river.  The view was breathtaking.  Everything in the condo was peach and white.  The carpet was thick with deep pile and the furniture was white lacquer.  The sofa and loveseat was a peach and green print with peach roses and green leaves and vines.
    Adam would come by in the evenings and take me to supper and then take me home and kiss me goodnight.  I lived for those kisses and longed for more.  He schooled me about who Kathy was and brought more pictures for me to look at.
    One day I was studying the photos of Kathy and I noticed something I hadn’t noticed before.  Her eyes were blue in all of the pictures but the one he had showed me at first.  “It must have been the lighting in that first one,” I said to myself and made a note to ask Adam to make sure what color Kathy’s eyes were.
    On the fourth day I waited for Adam and he was a little late.  I had begun to worry that he wasn’t coming when he showed up apologizing for being late, “The traffic was awful today,” he said as he swung me around and kissed me.
    That night he took me to a very romantic restaurant and, over after supper coffee, became serious.  “I have something I want to ask you, Kathy but I’m afraid you’ll get the wrong idea,” he said taking my hand and squeezing it.
    “I won’t get the wrong idea, I promise.  I know you and I know you would never do anything to hurt me.”
    He looked like a shy little boy when he said, “I have fallen in love with you .  I know it sound ridiculous since I’ve only known you such a short period of time but, I love you with all my heart and I want you to be my wife.  Please say yes.”
    I had never been so happy.  I didn’t think it was possible to be that happy. I loved him so much.  “Yes,” I whispered, “Oh yes, Adam.  I love you too and think I have loved you since you first came into my store.”
    “Let’s don’t wait, Kathy, let’s do it tonight.”
    “Can we do that?  Marry tonight?  Don’ t we need a li cense or something?   And why are you calling me Kathy?”
    “You need to get used to being called Kathy, so I’m practicing.  We can get a Justice of the Peace to marry us tonight.  Kids come up from Florida to Georgia to get married all the time because you can do it in one day.
    “Oh, Kathy, you have made me so happy.  I was so afraid yo u would think I just wanted to marry you for your money.  You do trust me, don’t you Kathy?”
    “Of course I do.  Let’s just go get married and then go to the condo and spend the night.”
    “No, let’s get married and then let me take you to the mansion and introduce you as my wife to Miss Gracie.”
    So