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What made these contests thrilling was the presexual tension that I always associated with the competition-that I always associated with Hester in particular. It was an early-morning voice or singing lesson; that was why she had to spend the previous night in Boston, which was an hour and a half from Gravesend-by train. And her fabled voluptuousness, which I would later possess as firm a memory of as any Gravesend boy, was quite concealed by th And now this: an unexplained pregnancy! According to my Aunt Martha, my grandfather was already out of it -he was so

In his junior year, he'd gotten a town girl pregnant, and his mother-only recently divorced from his father-had so skillfully and swif Did you have fun, dear? she asked him. almost every night, and swimming and waterskiing on Loveless Lake nearly every day, after work, and every weekend. You're saying that Owen was a virgin birth? I asked Mr.