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I'm her father and I'm supposed to be made out of stone as far as my daughter's concerned, and I was until a couple months after Nancy died.
"And it wasn't as if Darlene was a virgin and innocent. She had a lot of heavy dates. I saw her come in around one A.M. a couple times... hair mussed with little leaves and twigs in it, breasts wobbling around in her blouse or sweater without a bra, and she wore one going out earlier... that kind of thing. Frankly, it drives me crazy.
"One time I watched from my bedroom window with the lights out while she had a session in a car with a boy, parked in the driveway. No more than ten feet away. I was looking in the side window and partly through the windshield. The night light over the garage door lit them up good. Nobody else could see because of the hedge between the driveway and the neighbors' house.
I'm her father and I'm supposed to be made out of stone as far as my daughter's concerned, and I was until a couple months after Nancy died.
"And it wasn't as if Darlene was a virgin and innocent. She had a lot of heavy dates. I saw her come in around one A.M. a couple times... hair mussed with little leaves and twigs in it, breasts wobbling around in her blouse or sweater without a bra, and she wore one going out earlier... that kind of thing. Frankly, it drives me crazy.
"One time I watched from my bedroom window with the lights out while she had a session in a car with a boy, parked in the driveway. No more than ten feet away. I was looking in the side window and partly through the windshield. The night light over the garage door lit them up good. Nobody else could see because of the hedge between the driveway and the neighbors' house.