Man Who Loved God

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“This is just the way you’re built. You’ll have to live with it.”

Babs’s mother was incredulous. In effect, the gynecologist was saying that Barbara was malformed. That couldn’t be. Not Claire Simpson’s daughter.

In every way, Barbara resembled her mother. And Mrs. Simpson was a most attractive woman: she had the spoken and unspoken testimony of her husband and four paramours.

However, Claire Simpson did not need testimonials. She was well aware of and confident in her own striking beauty.

Babs was her daughter. The child’s body could not fail her. Babs was young-only twelve. Technically, she was not exactly a virgin. But that was the result of a biking accident. She had not, she attested, been sexually active.

Barbara insisted on a woman-rather than a male-gynecologist. Assured that the girl had not been sexually active, the doctor gave Barbara a routine pelvic examination, then pronounced, “This is just the way you’re built. You’ll have to live with it.”

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