i looked in the machine again and saw that instead of clothes , it was full of a droopy pile of wet capital block letters . `` there are conditions for a sixteen or seventeen-year-old to get one , but i can pull a couple of strings . `` are you sure it was three weeks ago ? '' her body was tightly curled up beneath them . when he did the same thing to my other breast , i felt a liquid pull in my center , like i was melting from the heat of his touch . 