Chapter Nine
The Black-Widow Spider
On the drive over to Elenora’s apartment we picked up some takeout food and drinks. As we ate in the car in a parking lot, she asked me when I started having religious beliefs. After our intimacy, I felt comfortable enough to tell her how my first attempt at having a s****l experience led directly to my becoming a born-again Christian. It was a story I felt I had to finally tell out loud, both for Elenora to better understand me, and for myself.
“I remember I was around 14, a naïve and innocent kid, in my last year of junior high. I was in the school play and I invited Alex, one of my best friends who also happened to be a born-again Christian, to come. He brought along his older sister, Elizabeth, who was in high school. After the play, Elizabeth tol
