title: Seventeen: Trauma-Rama: Life's Most Embarrassing Moments...and How to Deal
author:  Megan Stine 
description: Megan Stine is an avid collector of etiquette books. She is also the authr of over 80 books for younger readers including <em>The Story of Malcolm X, Sports Illustrated for Kids</em> and <em>Wheels: The Kid's Bike Book.</em>
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  ## Fate Interrupted
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### Kaitlyn Cross
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  #### Copyright © 2012 by Kaitlyn Cross
  
  
  
  
  
  #### Cover design by AMDesign Studios
  
  
  
  
  
  ##### All rights reserved
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Dean could feel himself going soft. Petrified, he closed his eyes and imagined
  he was on top of Gina, her silky brown hair sprawled out across the cream-
  colored pillow beneath her. The last thing he wanted was for word to get out
  he was a limp dick. He wasn’t. But the combination of alcohol and Megan’s
  obnoxious cries of ecstasy worked against him, so he gritted his teeth and dug
  in deeper, trying to rebuild before it was too late. Megan responded in kind,
  pressing her head into the pillow and screaming even louder, jerking him from
  his thoughts. He cringed and slowed his roll, trying to spare the sweet
  elderly