I really am not sure why I am writing all of this down. After all, I don't think I am bored or anything like that.
Lately I have gone to see Doctor Tomlinson less and less, he is a therapist and a pretty good one. We had sessions that were interesting, he dug around inside of me somehow, made me tell him everything.
The way I was back then I would have thought that it could not be done. Somehow sitting here at a keyboard and jotting down memories as they pop into my mind helps, just like visiting with Doctor Tomlinson helped me.
What he got me to say, combined with some medication was like sliding back a blanket, the only thing between me and the world.
I was safe underneath the blanket that covered me, so close to reality yet so very far away.
I jotted all that went before down in my first stories, but briefly what happened to me was a man I loved and trusted, the man that held me, told me he loved me, hurt me beyond belief.
Until that very moment I would have said that nothing like that could ever happen. He was like the only light in a room, he was my entire world.
I would have done anything he wanted, anything he asked of me.
Almost.
Good Doctors with hands I describe as magic rebuilt my face, they created me. Other Doctors corrected the hollow spot where my ribs were smashed from when my husband kicked me as I lay there helpless. How, I am not completely sure, they left no marks or scars, just the thin line low down under my jawline.
There are odd sensations, I cannot feel my hands touch my face, half of my tongue lacks feeling, also. That is a problem it took me awhile to get used to, I often bit myself at first but now I don't. My nose itches, I take care to not let rubbing it become a habit. It itches yet I cannot feel my fingers rub the itch.
October the 24th of 2004 Meridith walked out into her new world. I held my head high, for all the world I was a strong and confident woman. The fear was hidden deep inside.
Michelle, the naive and soft young woman I was before, I let her die. That was deliberate, intentional. Michelle just could not have ever managed life again.
Meridith Anders could. It was like I was born again, no one who ever knew me before would recognize me now.
The doctors had a canvas, they got to experiment, create whatever they wanted. They built a face that could bless any magazine cover in the world.
That is not a statement of vanity, it is a simple fact. I see myself in the mirror, I see what still appears to be a total stranger. Perhaps one day I will get used to that, as yet it is always a small surprise when I see who I am now.
The good doctors also used the opportunity to adjust my body, my crushed side required repairs. My bust enhancements were just something they did, sometimes I think of those years and wonder if the good doctors were simply having fun.
A few of you emailed to ask how much is truth? I changed the names that are real, I changed the locations. The rest is as close as I can come to explaining. I am writing it down as I remember, my purpose is to try and explain how easy it is to destroy a life, how perversions can lead to something terrible.
Some of you men are to be feared, I read your writings, see your fantasies, I know about you.
My name? It is really Meridith.
I walked out into the world that cool October day, there was no family, and any friends I knew before were long gone. I had no desire at all to renew any of those friendships.
Becoming a sexual surrogate was not really my intent, the idea of that never crossed my mind. In fact, I was done with men, with relationships, I was done with sexuality with a male.
I had decided that no man would ever touch me, not and live. That thought was in my mind.
I had my own ways to satisfaction. Merciless teasing, hate and lust. It is very close to exactly the same thing. Some of that was for revenge, I actually do know now that I blamed all men. No matter what they said, or how nice they acted, I knew for a fact what any of them could do.
I was just looking for some kind of work and I had no skills at all. Then I saw that advertisement, I applied.
I knew what was involved, I would say I did not care but that would be a lie. I thought that in a safe setting, impersonal, that would be a completely different thing.
Not one time did I ever fuck one of my clients, until I met Mark. Rather, they fucked me, it is a completely different thing. In my mind, I was withholding myself from them, untouched.
It was like a revenge. Like the Masseuse that masturbates a client, thinking only of the tip? Thus a penis, pressed inside me?
No different than when I wash myself. Emotionless, nothing. Withheld completely, that was a vengeance to me.
I know now that this was really messed up.
I also knew why I was hired, it was because of the rebuilt face, my rebuilt body. Like I mentioned, the doctors were very good. I knew that by the standards of men I was beautiful, far more so than before.
You would need to look very closely to see the faint scar where my new face joins the old under my jawline, and even that I can hide with a trace of makeup.
I will always remember my very first time with a client. I was extremely nervous, although I never let that show. I most certainly was not excited.
I did know what to do and did it very well.
That was allowing intercourse, plain and simple. To me, it might as well have been a pedicure. There were the sensations of the flesh but there were none of the mind.
That is something that is worth a comment, that "sensations of the mind" part. It is as close as I can come to what it is like.
My joy before was in pleasing my husband, I had no need for personal orgasm to reach a state of pure bliss with him. Just knowing, just feeling him, was enough for me. Dragging his seed from him, taking it deep within made me a total part of him.
Does that make sense?
The orgasm, the blinding need for that satisfaction came from elsewhere, that had nothing to do with my husband. That had only to do with me. Orgasms during intercourse were a completely different thing, almost a side effect of the act itself.
Meridith had that blanket you see, hidden from the world, none could see, reach me, harm me. It was how it was explained to me.
The things I did and the way I acted was to protect myself, yet at the same time I was punishing myself for the actions of others.
Doctor Tomlinson took that blanket off of me somehow, exposed me. He made me think, realize.
Somehow the realization made me happy.
I had been a very long time since I felt happy.
My very next client the same day that I somehow felt happy for the first time in a very long time, was Mark. He was lucky, or perhaps I was? I just cannot be sure.
Impotent, performance anxiety was his concern. Mark actually did erect quite normally, but that failed when he attempted any joining. This is not rare, it is common.
I took away all of his thoughts about needing to perform, I distracted him. Part of that was my training, part of that somehow became real.