title: Aunt Lillian Told Me to Keep Laughing
author:  Rosalie Bott 
description: Rosalie Bott is a former teacher, itinerary writer, and a frequently exhibited artist. She is actively engaged in the cancer community, is a survivor of multiple cancers, and is active in spite of lymphedema. Rosalie has two married daughters and five grandsons. She resides with her husband in Central, NJ.
zlib_text: Dedication
   
  For Eleanor Lees, the undisputed queen of that’s what he/she said jokes. I especially love it when you do it to yourself
  (that’s what she said!). You crack me up.
  
  Chapter One
   
  “My hands are full, stick it in my mouth.” Devon wrapped her lips around the stem of the lavender rose Kate wagged in her
  direction.
  Kayla sing-songed, “That’s what he said.”
  Devon choked. She met her friend’s gaze in the mirror, then burst out laughing. It was even funnier because her joke held a
  kernel of truth. When their husbands and the rest of the crew got together for one of their steamy sessions, the logistics of five
  guys going at it made for some interesting challenges.
  Somehow she managed not to drop the pretty prop clasped between her teeth. The laces on the corset Morgan had been
  tightening around Devon’s slim ribcage slipped in the aftermath of their raucous exhalations.
  “Shit, sorry,” she mumbled around the flower, hoping it had no thorns. Then she forced herself to calm down. An ext