Years ago there was a provider I saw regularly for over 3 yrs. By regularly, I mean twice a month, sometimes more. After the first couple sessions and numerous phone conversations and frequent emails, she told me that she really enjoyed my company and started charging me an amount that was half her hourly rate, but every time I'd see her it would turn into a multi hr encounter of at least 3 hrs. The relationship progressed to where we were going on dates that were totally off the clock. We would buy each other birthday and Christmas gifts, meet for drinks, go jet skiing together, visit museums. etc. We both realized the lines had been totally blurred, but we rarely talked about that. She was close to 20 yrs younger than me, so yeah, I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a huge boost to my ego. To make matters more complicated, I was married at the time, and she was in an on again, off again relationship with a guy back east. The time came when she decided to retire from the scene and relocate to another city where some of her family lived. I had the honor, or privilege, whatever you wanna call it, of being the last guy she saw the day before she left LA.

We had a couple phone conversations in the following months that never amounted to much. She broke up with her sometime boyfriend, and I got divorced. I didn't hear from for about 5 yrs til I got a Facebook message from her about a year ago. She was finishing up her post grad work at a university in my area. We ended up having a lunch date where she told me that I was the only person from her TER days that she kept in touch with. Can only take her at her word, but knowing her the way I do, I believe her. The date finished with some very long , deep kisses in the car and then we said our goodbyes.

We're still FB friends. She's since married and lives in another city. I definitely won't forget her.

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