Chapter 38

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During an away cricket

match, as Paul waited to go into bat, he got talking to a brunette

called Natalie.He was immediately

attracted to her. Natalie was both pretty and intelligent. Paul

didn’t like the air-head Trish type, nor the po-faced bluestocking

school mistress variety, either. Paul wondered momentarily if

Natalie was a bloke in a frock, but good sense prevailed. Even he

wasn’t unlucky enough to encounter two cross-dressers.

Because Natalie lived some

distance away, he was able only to see her at weekends. It was

during their second weekend together when he was able to confirm

Natalie’s womanly attributes.

The two had dined at the

pub in Natalie’s village. The heavy oak beams and rustic interior

appealed to the country boy within Paul. He particularly enjoyed

the horse brasses by the large open stone fire-places, and the

prints depicting various hunting scenes along the walls. Paul got

carried away with the pub’s rural ambience, not to mention