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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: "If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough."
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STEVE: Phoenix
My name is Steve Veinard. I'm 44 years old. I own a construction company with offices scattered across a dozen states, mostly the southwestern US. I make a lot of short business trips. Denver is my base but, now that my kids are in college, I could easily relocate to be near any of my offices. Totaling all of the offices, we are fast approaching two hundred employees and have very little turnover.
I started my business when I was still in college. My father, who died not long after I graduated from college, helped me greatly in obtaining the financing I needed in the first few years running my business. I'm still very conservative with my money. I live in a three bedroom ranch style house. My bedroom and the kitchen look pretty normal but the rest of the house had blueprints, dioramas, and manila folders placed strategically about. I drive an older extended bed pickup truck.
I've received awards for many of the projects undertaken. I don't care for the personal attention but it definitely brings in a lot of new business. After some rough roads early on, I do background checks on our hot prospects. My dad taught me to check them out and, if they weren't the kind of people I'd want to be friends with, don't do business with them. I skipped the checks a few times, when I was young, and got burned.
I met my ex-wife, Audrey, while in college. Although it wasn't a steamy romantic courtship, we did get married shortly after graduation. Audrey wanted kids and two of them came along quickly. Andrew, named after her grandfather, and Thomas, just over a year later, named after my father. Audrey was a good mother. We would, however, never be soulmates. The spark really wasn't there from the beginning.
I was married to my business and almost completely immersed in it. Audrey really didn't want or need my help raising the kids. Now that I'm older I see that I missed out on building a special bond with my children. The marriage was just about raising kids. Easily my time on the road contributed greatly to our drifting apart. Audrey and I had talked for years about divorce but felt that, in the best interest of the boys, we should wait until they were in college.
Once both Andrew and Thomas were in college we filed for divorce. I love Audrey but more like a sister than a wife. I'm still good friends with her and we share time together when one or both of the boys are home from college. She was treated quite nicely in the divorce. It's been final for about eighteen months.
I had longed to find a soulmate to share my good fortune. Dating, after an over twenty year's hiatus, has been hit and miss. I don't seem to have a problem finding one night stands.
Weary of the snow, I boarded a flight to Phoenix for a long weekend. I booked a hotel near my office.
The pre-dawn Friday morning flight allowed me to grab an early tee time. I headed straight from the airport to the golf course. While playing you could hear the shouts and screams of the soccer games being played on the adjacent fields. The young kids just follow the ball around like it's a magnet, while the older kids start to display something that looks like strategy is involved.
After my round I swung by the office and got my primary reason for the trip handled. It was just shy of 3 pm when I checked into the hotel. Check in time is usually 4 pm but they had a room available. Once I got settled in I changed into my swim trunks and headed for the hot tub.
A pair of ladies and some kids were in the tub. I found an open area and settled down. The lady with the raven hair had a tee shirt over her one piece suit. The lady with the blond hair wore a bikini, not skimpy but she was fit and trim. I'm terrible at guessing people's ages but maybe they were something in the 30-35 range.
"Hi" from the blond "How are you?"
"I'm good and how are you ladies?"
"Tired, we just finished our first day of the soccer tournament."
"Over at the fields by the highway? I saw some soccer being played there. I was on the golf course next to the fields."
"Yep, that's where we were. I'm Sue, this is Sam."
"I'm Steve. Where's home?"
"We're from Albuquerque; we started out very early this morning. How about you? "
"Denver. Got in this morning for a little business but mostly golf."
"Wife and kids with you?"
"No, divorced and kids are in college."
Sue got up to leave.
"Gotta go Sam. Someone needs a new pair of soccer shoes."
Sue took a misstep and lost her balance. I was able to catch her before she hurt herself. Not, however, before her hand had planted itself firmly into my crotch. It lingered there before she realized where it had landed.
Her hand recoiled as if it had been set on fire "Oh I'm so sorry! Are you going to be ok?"
"Probably" winking "Just a little swelling."
Blushing "Well I didn't mean to but I'm glad I did. Sweeeet!"
She climbed out and wrapped her towel around.
"Meet you for dinner Sam? Say six-ish?"
"Sounds good Sue, we gotta feed the troops."
I could see Sam had enjoyed the show as her nipples were now showing against her shirt.
"Sam, for Samantha? Do you do fund raisers to pay for these trips?"
"Yep to both, cookies, cakes, car washes, bingo."
"Did you bring any cookies? I'd help support the team."
"Not this time."
"Too bad" licking my lips "I think I'd really enjoy nibbling on your cookies."
Sam sat there quietly and I noticed her nipples were really hard now.
"Sam, I doubt you're thinking about baking cookies."
"What makes you think that?"
I nodded my head toward her tits. She looked down and folded her arms to cover up. Her face turned red.
"You're bad. You've got me thinking about things I shouldn't be thinking about."
"Well if you want to do more than think about it I'm in 214."
I got up to leave, facing Sam. She stared at my swim trunks for a second then looked away.
"Nice meeting you Sam."
I grabbed my towel and headed towards the stairs. Sam was still in the hot tub, with her arms folded, when I looked back from the second floor.
I sat at the table in my room, cracked open a beer, and turned on the TV. About fifteen minutes later a knock on the door. Opening up, Sam pushed past me.