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"Hello. This is Pastor Bursman."
When Paul Bursman, pastor of Thomasville Community Church in Thomasville, AZ, answered the phone on that fateful Friday afternoon, he had no idea that it would set off a chain of events that would change the life of his whole family forever.
On the phone was Frank Pierce, the owner of the local garage. Two business men had been traveling through the area when the water pump on their car went out. He could get the part and have them fixed up by noon the next day. But they needed a place to stay the night. Little Thomasville did not have a motel; just a small bed and breakfast, and it was already full for the night. Could the two men stay at the church?
This was not an unusual request. In fact it happened a lot in this small community. The church had even purchased several cots to be used in the fellowship hall when needed. Pastor Bursman agreed to come and get the men and set them up in the church. Then he told his wife, Mary, the situation and suggested they invite the two men for supper. She readily agreed.
It took Paul about half an hour to drive to the garage, pick up the two men, and get them set up at the church, before they all went over to the house for supper. By then Mary, with the help of their two children, Lydia and Timothy, had the table set and supper ready to be served.
Paul introduced the two men to his family. Ron Thomas and Tom Baker were from California and said they worked as salespeople for a computer company. They laughed about being stuck in Thomasville, since both of them had Thomas in their names. They seemed friendly and everyone enjoyed the table talk during the meal. After the meal was over Tom asked to use the bathroom before they went back to the church. While he was gone Ron helped Mary and the children clear the table.
Suddenly, it happened. When Tom came out of the bathroom, he was no longer the nice, friendly salesman from California. His face was stern, almost angry. He shoved the barrel of a gun in Paul's face.
"Sit down and be quiet. Do exactly what we say and maybe you'll all live through this."
Ron grabbed Lydia from behind and thrust the point of a knife against her neck. As she screamed Tim made a move to help her.
"Easy, boy." Ron said. "She'll be dead before you ever get here. Just back off and sit down on the floor where we can keep an eye on you. Mom, you sit next to him."
Mary, who was by now white as a sheet, quickly sank to the floor. "Please don't hurt her." she cried.
Just that quickly Ron and Tom had the Bursmans at their mercy. Ron stood holding Lydia and the knife. Tim and Mary were on the floor and Paul sat on a kitchen chair nearby. Tom looked around.
"Think you can control things in here while I go see what I can find?" he asked Ron.
"Sure, no problem. They aren't going to try anything fancy as long as I've got the girl here." Ron replied, pressing the knife blade into Lydia's neck a little for emphasis. "Isn't that right, folks?"
Tom left the room. Ron settled back, drawing Lydia with him. "Now, everybody just stay put where you are and your little girl here will remain OK. Try to get up and I'll spray her blood all over the place."
"What's going on?" Paul asked, his voice a little shaky with fear. "Are you robbing us?"
Ron smiled. "You could say that. Actually we need your car. That idiot at the garage could still check on our car and find out we stole it. We need to get out of here tonight yet. But since you invited us into your house and we have the opportunity, we thought, what the hell. We might as well see what other goodies we could find to make it worth our while."
"Then take what you want and leave us alone." Paul begged. "Just don't hurt anyone. Please!"
"Do what we say, when we say it, and no one has to be hurt." Ron replied. "Now, just sit there and shut up."
After about a half hour of waiting, Tom returned with a pillow case which was about a third full of stuff. "Didn't find much," he said. "Only about $200-300.00 worth."
"Well, that's better than nothing." Ron replied. Then he turned to Paul. "OK, give Tom your car keys. It's time we got out of here."
Paul reached into his pocket and tossed his keys to Tom. Anything to get them away from his family, he thought. He could see the fear in his daughter's eyes. And Mary looked like she might faint at any time. Even Tim looked sick with the strain of the last half hour. And Paul realized he didn't feel too good either.
"Wait a minute," Tom said, as he caught Paul's keys. "We can't just leave them here. They'll have the cops on us in no time. We have to tie them up or something. ... Hold on. I've got an idea. Be back in a minute." With that he headed out the back door. A couple of minutes later he was back, carrying the clothesline from the back yard. "We can use this," he said.
"Yeah!" Ron smiled lewdly. "And I know just how we're going to do it to buy us even more time. Come on."
At Ron's direction, he and Tom herded Paul and his family into the master bedroom. He instructed Paul and Tim to bring two of the high-backed chairs from the dining room with them. Tom removed the bedside phone and threw it into hall.
Still holding the knife to Lydia's throat, Ron said, "Now, all of you get your clothes off. Strip naked!"
"What!??" Mary said in unbelief.
She could not believe her ears. No one had ever seen her naked since her mother stopped bathing her when she was a child, not even her husband. Both she and Paul were from very strict religious homes. They had been taught that nudity led to lust which was the root of all sexual sins. Even when they were trying to have children (the only reason for any sexual contact at all) she was fully clothed in pajamas that had a special hole in them at the proper place. Her mother had provided them for her as a wedding gift. She would put lubrication on her vagina and close her eyes while Paul rubbed himself until he was ready. Then he would insert the head of his penis through the hole in her pajama bottoms and into her vagina and rub himself until he shot his sperm into her. She would stay in a prone position with her legs up to allow his sperm the chance to find her egg and make her pregnant while he went to clean up. They only did this at the height of her fertility cycle, which she kept an accurate record of. Otherwise they had no sexual contact at all. In fact, since she had "female problems" and had to have her ovaries removed several years ago, she and Paul had not had any sexual contact at all for over six years. And that included no nudity. They even slept in twin beds so they would not be tempted to sin.
"I can't do that." she exclaimed, fear showing in her eyes.
Ron smiled lewdly. "It's either that or watch your daughter's blood splatter all over this room when I slit her throat." He pressed the knife blade tight against Lydia's throat, causing her to cry out in pain.
"No!" Mary cried in panic, holding up her hands in an attempt to stop him from hurting her daughter. Sweat broke out all over her forehead as her trembling hands reached up to begin unbuttoning her blouse.
Tom shoved the barrel of his gun into Paul's back. "Well, what are you waiting for?" he barked. "You heard Ron. Get naked. You too, kid."
Knowing they had no choice, Paul and Tim bowed their heads and slowly began to remove their clothes. Paul and Mary had taught their children just what they had been taught by their parents. Nudity and sex were wrong. Their bodies were something to be ashamed of. As more and more of their bodies were exposed, tears began to fill their eyes in shame. Soon all three were down to their underwear, Paul and Tim in boxers, Mary in plain white bra and panties. They paused, hoping this would satisfy their captors.
When they stopped, Ron grew angry. "I said, get naked!" he yelled, once again pushing the point of the knife into Lydia's throat until she cried out.
Quickly Paul, Mary, and Tim removed their last articles of clothing and stood naked before each other for the first time in their lives. Tim, at age eighteen, was in the height of his battle with his hormones. He had always thought that the female body was supposed to be some ugly, hideous thing that they had to keep covered. But as he looked at his mother's naked body (and he couldn't help but look) he was amazed at how beautiful she was. Her breasts stood so proud on her chest. They were capped with dainty pink nipples. Her hips flared nicely from her narrow waist, leading to wonderfully shaped legs. At their junction was a mat of dark hair that hid her vagina from his view. He forced himself to look away. It was wrong for him to look at his mother this way.