Meeting the warden of my new retirement home in Florida, who's name was Helen, brought back memories of my first proper relationship and successful sexual encounter.
After familiarizing myself with my new surroundings, I sat in my rom and cast my mind back all those years.
Following a disastrous relationship where tales of a premature nature and an inability to satisfy a nymphomaniac, made itself public knowledge, I manfully accepted the jibes from fellow students. The first few months of my college years were were a joke.
I naturally felt sorry for myself for the requisite amount of time until everybody had forgotten about my indiscretion. I then fortuitously met Helen who became my next amour.
Helen was just less than 2 months older than me regarding age, but a lifetime in almost every other area that counted as far as I was concerned. The fact that Helen had been raised on a farm with freedoms and opportunities denied to me, helped enormously. Helen's. liberal-minded parents who trusted all of their six daughters implicitly, gave her the wisdom and experimentation she had obviously experienced.
Having turned 18 just 6 months previously, Helen had just started her first year at the same college as me, Dillard College in New Orleans. I had left the stifling atmosphere of an Irish/Catholic abusive family, with eight siblings, to study biology at Dillard. Spreading her wings, Helen had opted for a psychology major.
The all-year-round clement weather made it almost inevitable that we would form some sort of intense physical relationship, eventually.
It wasn't just that Helen was extremely good looking to me. She had a nice tight pixie haircut, showing off her copper/red hair, sparkling blue eyes, and permanent grin.
The trend above anything else in those days (mid-70s), much like now, was the desperation to be in a girlfriend/boyfriend relationship (or any kind of relationship). Loneliness or independence was, and still is heavily frowned upon, and to be avoided at all costs.