I'D DO IT ALL AGAIN

In no time, I brought my friend up to speed on everything that had happened in the last few hours of my life—the most insane, horrible, painful, and at the same time incredible hours.

"So?" I looked at Simone, sighing. "What do you have to say?"

"You-got-oral-from-Fred-Hunt?" She said each word slowly, deliberately.

I laughed.

"Yes. And... it was incredible."

"At least tell me you came."

"I came... and not just once."

"And what did you think?"

"Of coming?"

"Of ...