I knew her by name as an acquaintance at first, an artist of a kind, but we were not friends and she had praised my figure and wanted to see more, maybe do a life study of me, and the hourly wage would be great (for me, at that time). This took several visits, as you might imagine, and over that period time, I of course came to understand many things about her that remained unspoken at that time and to this day we have never talked about them. My husband then was struggling with his business, was often absent for days, even weeks, at a time, and I was lonely just for friendship and here was this interesting, even amazing, woman. One thing led to another...
I knew her by name as an acquaintance at first, an artist of a kind, but we were not friends and she had praised my figure and wanted to see more, maybe do a life study of me, and the hourly wage would be great (for me, at that time). This took several visits, as you might imagine, and over that period time, I of course came to understand many things about her that remained unspoken at that time and to this day we have never talked about them. My husband then was struggling with his business, was often absent for days, even weeks, at a time, and I was lonely just for friendship and here was this interesting, even amazing, woman. One thing led to another...