It was at the funeral of my father's cousin it was revealed what a great experience I had let slip out of my hands in my youth.
At the reception afterwards his wife Gunilla suddenly came to sit alone. She beckoned for me to come and sit by her side. "I want to talk to you," she said. Of course I wanted to talk to her. I had always fancied her and she had always been very kind to me.
She looked at me in silence for a little while with an uncertain expression on her face. A shy smile came and went. Then she obviously made up her mind.
"Well, I have a small gift for you. It's some photos. Over the years I have decided many times to burn them but always changed my mind thinking they are worth saving after all. Last night I decided that you should have them and then I decided against it this morning. But here they are. Take them before I change my mind again."
She handed me a thick envelope. I took out a stack of black and white photos in an old format, 12 by 20 centimeter I thought, and browsed through them. I drew my breath and looked at Gunilla. "It's you. In the nude. You are sure you want me to have them?" She didn't answer, just looked expectantly at me. I started to go through the pictures more slowly looking carefully at each one. After a few I looked at her again.
"But you were gorgeous. Well, I have always remembered you that way but you really were and still are. It wasn't just a young boy's lust. You were stunning." She looked very pleased.
"So, you do remember? It was so many years ago," she said a little shyly.
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Of course I remembered what had happened when I was young and totally inexperienced about girls. I remembered it very clearly.
It all started the year when I turned eighteen. That summer I got very interested in the female body.
I am raised in the countryside and was shy and innocent as a boy. I had no friends living nearby to play with and find out the facts of life together with. So when it happened I had to figure it out on my own.
It all started when one day I was late for the daily swim. We lived in an old farm house on a bigger estate with a few small cottages around. They were used as summer houses for my father's cousins so in summertime there were several more persons around than during the rest of the year. Going to the lake to swim was the main attraction in the afternoons as soon as weather permitted.
When I came to the bathing place I was stopped at the entrance by my father's female cousin Karin. She was in the nude. I knew that she had friends visiting but had no reason to believe that I wasn't welcome as well. We always bathed together.
"Erik, I am sorry but you can't swim with us today. My friends didn't bring any swim suits so we are in the nude and it isn't appropriate for you to be around. You are too grown up. So please be a good boy and go to the other bathing place," she said. I wondered why she suddenly behaved so strangely. She held one arm over her breasts and the other hand over her lower hair.
Although I didn't understand the reason I did as she had asked me. I was used to be alone. The other bathing place was close by but there was a row of big bushes separating the two.
The ordinary place had a jetty with a spring board and wind shelters. This had only a tiny strip of sand.
I sat down and thought about why I suddenly wasn't allowed to bathe with them. They had often been in the nude in the past but now I remembered that it hadn't happened this summer. My mother had always been unconcerned about my presence when she changed and I had often seen her in the nude. But when I now thought about it there had also been some time since that had happened.
What was all this about? Was there a secret that the women didn't want me to know about? I felt a surge in my stomach and got curious. I had to find out somehow.
The bushes separating the two places looked thick from the outside. But I knew from many games in the past that from my side it was easy to crawl inside the bushes and get a good view. I did just that.
I watched the women on the other side for quite a long time. They looked normal to me and did only the usual things, sunbathing, swimming and drying themselves. But they looked very different from each other. There were seven or eight women. I noticed that the hair between the legs on most of them was darker than on the heads and a few had a very different and much darker color.
I got interested in the breasts. I had had no idea that they came in so many shapes and sizes. From my sister's conical tits with small pink raspberries on top to the breasts of one of the friends which were huge with big brown circles and dark plugs sticking out in the middle. I got very interested in how the breasts bounced and swung when the women moved. One of them had breasts that were so firm that they didn't bounce much although they were rather large. I watched the breasts for quite a while but although they looked very nice I couldn't see any hidden secrets.
I got back to look at the hair between the legs. Hair could disguise something I thought. And Karin had covered the hair with her hand. She was fair-haired and the hair between her legs was not as thick as on some of the other women I noticed. I looked closely at her and she helped by standing facing my way slightly moving her legs. After a while she turned a little and the sun filtered through her hair. Then I saw it. There was an impression in her flesh that seemed to deepen to a slit leading down between her legs. I looked at it for a long time but couldn't see anything more.
One of the other women caught my interest. She was sitting and parted her thighs when squirming around. A similar slit became visible under her thick dark hair and it deepened substantially further down.
Another woman suddenly knelt with her ass facing me. She stood with her knees apart and leaned forward to rummage through her purse. There definitely was a deep slit between her legs with soft folds surrounding it. It looked very interesting.
I watched the other women to see if they also had that slit. They moved around and now and then I got a glimpse between their legs and it was obvious that they all had that slit although they all looked different.