Thursday, May 24, 2012

The Student Union Building Painting


This is a true story.  (I’m amazed how much of this story I remember vividly.  Much of the language is almost word for word what was said.)  This was the beginning of an affair that lasted several months and I still fondly remember Kari, pronounced car-e. 



It was the spring of 1976, and I was standing in line at the student union building cafeteria, essentially brain dead, waiting to get a cup of coffee.  I’d been up late the night before studying and seriously needed the coffee to wake up.  I noticed an attractive young woman standing in line ahead of me looking at the wall, and then looking at me.  She repeated this several times, and then asked, “Is that you?” 

I looked to where she indicated and said, “Uh, yes,” staring wide eyed at the painting on the wall, which happened to be a full frontal nude of me.  I’d started modeling for the art department the semester before as one of many part-time jobs I had to pay for college; however, I had no clue that drawings or paintings of me were going to be displayed in the student union building for everyone to see. 

“Very cool!”  She smiled up at me.  She was a delicate looking young woman with beautiful, red-brown hair nearly to her waist, and bright blue eyes.  She had a tight body and her face lit up when she smiled and I couldn’t help but grin back at her.

We finally got our coffee and I scanned the seating area and saw an open booth back in the corner of the cafeteria.  With our large containers of coffee in hand I lead the way through the crowd and snagged the booth.  She peeled off her jacket and slid into the booth.  I couldn’t help but notice her prominent nipples showing through her tight white sweater.  We settled in and she reached across the table, took my hand, and said, “Hi, I’m Kari.  It’s nice to see you, all of you,” she included with an impish grin and a wink. 

She held on to my hand, and I blushed and said, “I’m Jim.  It’s nice to meet you Kari.”  Why I was embarrassed, I didn’t know, except that I was very attracted to this young lady, and I was caught off guard by seeing the painting in the most prominent location in the very center of campus activity. 

We talked easily about school, and other things that we were both interested in.  It felt like she and I had been friends for a long time.  She was from Boston and I was a local.  Kari told me that she was taking theater as a minor and she loved acting out scenarios with her friends.  She asked me about modeling and I told her it was a lot harder than it looked, that I had to stay motionless for up to 30 minutes at a time.  I also remarked that often it became quite uncomfortable, and how hard it was not to move sometimes, especially when I got an itch. 

“How do you keep from getting hard?” She asked earnestly.  I told her that it really wasn’t a sexually charged situation and that after the first week or so, I hadn’t had much trouble with that.  She kept reaching across the table touching my arm or my hand when she talked and I could tell she liked me.  Every time she touched me it was as if she was pressing a button that would send a jolt of electricity to my groin. 

It wasn’t long before we had to head off to class and she said, “I’d really like to see you again.”  She winked and smiled, “Maybe in person?”

“I’d like that very much.”  I replied, grinning.  “I’m out of class at 3 this afternoon and don’t have to work until tomorrow.  If you’re free, maybe we could get together.” I said hoping that would work with her schedule. 

“This next class is the only one I have today, how about you meet me at my apartment after your class?”  She said, writing her address and phone number on a piece of notebook paper.  I noticed that she lived on the street just to the south of campus, just beyond the girl’s dorms.

She hugged me, gave me a quick look in the eyes, and I thought for a second she was going to kiss me, then she turned and left.  I hadn’t realized how small she was before she’d hugged me.  She couldn’t have been 5 feet tall, and next to my 6 feet 3 inches, she seemed tiny.  I stood there staring at her tight little backside as she hurried through the crowd and off to class.

I spent the rest of the day thinking about Kari and her sparkling blue eyes and of course her prominent nipples, and trying to hide the erection that made itself known every time I thought of her. 

I arrived at her apartment door at 15 minutes past 3, after nearly getting run over as I sprinted across campus and across the street to her apartment.  I stood for a minute to catch my breath and heard one of my favorite songs playing on her stereo and knocked on the door. 

Kari opened the door and said sternly, “You’re late, I expected you here promptly at 3:00 for your modeling session.  Now hurry and get undressed and start your first 20 minute pose.”  She had a serious expression on her face, but I could see her eyes sparkling with delight.  She’d changed her clothes and was wearing a halter top and very short cut-off jeans. 

I stared at her for a minute, and then realized she was acting out a scenario and I decided to go with it.  Why not get naked in front of her?  It’s what I wanted to do since the moment I met her; although I wanted her naked as well.

“Oh god, I’m sorry I’m late.  I’ll get ready immediately.  Where should I change?”

“Right here, I don’t have time for you to go anywhere else and change.”  She said, trying hard not to smile.

I stepped over to her couch and dropped my jacket, peeled my T-shirt over my head, slipped my boots and socks off, undid my belt, and began unbuttoning my Levis.  I looked up at her and her eyes were glued on my hands at my fly.  I was hard already and my cock was extending down my right pant leg.  I slowly unbuttoned the last three buttons and pulled my hands away.  About 2 inches of my cock were showing through my open fly. 

“Well, what are you waiting for?  I don’t have all day, you know.”  She stated, her nipples obvious through the thin cotton of her halter top.

I stifled a laugh and slid my Levis down, my cock springing free and standing up at a sharp angle. 

I heard the sharp intake of her breath and looked up at her.  “What kind of pose would you like?”

“I, uh, I’d like a standing pose, with some twist in it.”  She stated looking me up and down.

“Hair tied up or loose?”

“Hair loose.” 

I took the elastic out of my hair and shook it out and took my pose.  My hair was well past my shoulders. 

“Now, you are not to move for the next 20 minutes.  If you move I’ll stop doing what I’m doing and you’ll have to get dressed and leave immediately, understand?  I’m setting a timer and when it goes off, you can move.” 

I was a little unsure what she had in mind, but I was willing to go along with her for now. 

She walked around me as I stood there, my body motionless and my gaze fixed on the chair across the room.  “For example, if I was to do this,” She said as she wrapped her hand around my cock, just below the head and lightly stroked me, “and you were to thrust your hips forward, I’d stop what I was doing immediately, and you would have to leave.”  She looked up at me wickedly, and all I could do was look at her with my eyes, not moving my head.  She released my cock and I groaned.  She walked behind me and ran her fingertips from my balls, lightly along the crack of my ass and up my back under my hair to the base of my skull.  I moaned, and it was hard not to turn to her.  “You like that, huh?  I’ll remember that.”  She chuckled wickedly. 

She walked back around in front of me and with her back to me, bent over forward and placed her palms on the floor about a foot behind her heels.  She looked up at me from between her smooth well muscled thighs, and said, “I was a gymnast, and I’m very flexible.”  She smiled and placed both palms on her tight little butt, her shoulders between her thighs and her elbows behind her knees. 

I groaned, my cock jerked and drips of pre-cum began stringing out of the tip and running down its length.  It was all I could do not to look directly at her.  Luckily she was almost in my line of site.

“You like that, huh?”  She smiled and placing her hands in front of her and did a slow walk over, which stretched the fabric of her halter top taught against her breasts as her upper body came upright.  She leaned back and did a back bend looking up at me, her hands were nearly against her feet, and the halter top was again taught against her breasts. 

She turned to me and kissed my nipples, nipping them with her teeth lightly, then licked and kissed her way down my chest to my stomach.  She slid her tongue into my belly button; the head of my cock was pressed against the underside of her jaw.  She smiled up and me and it was all I could do not to look down at her.  Her lips enveloped the head of my cock and her tongue probed into the slit.   I groaned. “Mmm you taste good, a little sweet, and a little salty.”  She licked the length of my shaft and around the head, and then took the first 5 inches of my cock into her mouth, the head pressed against the back of her throat.  She swallowed and swirled her tongue around the shaft and slid back off my cock, the suction causing a loud pop, when the head slipped from her lips.  “You’re cock is long, the longest I’ve ever had the pleasure of playing with,” she purred. 

“Oh my god, that felt good.”  I moaned.

“No talking or I’ll stop.”  She smiled up at me. 

She stood, cupping my balls in her hand and lightly squeezing them.  Turning away from me she reached behind her and untied the bottom of her halter top, then slipped it over her head and tossed it aside.  Again she leaned back and did a back bend into a walk over and when she stood she was pressed tight against the front of me, my cock pressed into her back.  It was all I could do not to reach around and take her breasts in my hands.  I strained my eyes to look down and I could just see the tips of her nipples extend out from her slightly up turned breasts. 

Kari rose up and down, her back against my cock using the dripping pre-cum as a lubricant as she stroked me against her.  I groaned and gritted my teeth clenching my jaw trying not to thrust against her.  She turned around and slid down to her knees, again taking the first 5 inches of my cock in her mouth, and then she swallowed several times and took the rest of my cock, the head and part of the shaft going down her throat.  She stroked me several times, taking the head of my cock and a little more down her throat.  It was the first time any girl had done that to me.  I groaned and was straining not to come.  She slid off me and said.  “No coming, not yet anyway.”  My cock was throbbing, and a little cum oozed out. 

She sashayed away from me.  Looked over her shoulder and unbuttoned her shorts.  She bent over and slid them down her legs in one quick move and stepped out of them, I swallowed hard, no panties.  I could see her pussy.  She walked up to me and swung her right leg out to the side and up and placed it on my left shoulder.  She pressed herself against me, her hard nipples poking against my lower chest.  I could feel the soft hairs of her trimmed bush against the upper part of my thigh.  I was amazed at her flexibility. 

I had reached the end of my rope and was just about to break my pose and take her right then and there when the alarm went off.  She tried to step back, but I grasped her instantly by the hips.  I stepped to the side and scooped her up in my arms and set her on the couch.  I slid my body over hers, pinning her down.  She had her hands against my chest, and was pushing me away when I leaned down and kissed her.  She held her lips tight for a heartbeat or two, and then I felt her relax.  I played with her lips with my tongue as I was placing small little kisses on her lips, upper, lower, and the corners of her mouth.  I slipped my tongue between her lips and she opened up.  Almost immediately she was kissing me back aggressively. 

I slid up her body slightly until my cock was between us and pressed the shaft of my cock against her wet pussy.  Kari groaned and thrust up against me.  I began to kiss my way down her body, focusing on her beautiful breasts, licking and suckling her nipples, and kissing the underside of her firm breasts.

I kissed my way down her belly and down her right thigh, kissing and licking the soft smooth skin.  I could smell her arousal and it was heavenly.  I kissed and licked my way up her left thigh and sucked the junction of her thigh.  I parted her nether lips with my tongue and dipped into her pussy.  I laved her from perineum to clitoris and she arched up against me and moaned.  I circled her hard clit, poking out from under its hood, with my tongue, and then sucked it between my lips and probed it with my tongue.  Kari grabbed my head and pulling my face against her, arched her back and came.   I kept licking her, being more and more gentle as she continued to come. 

After a minute or so, she pulled me up and kissed me.  She wrapped her legs around me, reached between us and guided my cock into her.  I pressed the head of my cock against her pussy and gently pushed and the head slipped into her.  “Gentle, please.”  She purred.  I pressed a couple of inches into her, she was very tight, and then backed out, leaving only the head in her. “If feels so fucking good.”

I slowly pressed forward moving about three or so inches into her and stopped.  “You are so tight!”  I whispered in her ear.

“There’s a reason I’m so tight.  I’ve never had a cock in my pussy before.”

“Oh god, you would tell me that now.  You’re a virgin?”

“I just haven’t had a cock in my pussy.  Don’t freak out, just fuck me.”

I pulled out again and slowly buried my cock in her, the head pressed against her cervix.  “Oh fuck, that feels so good.  I never thought it would feel so fucking good.”  I held myself there as she accommodated my size and as she relaxed I drew back and slowly stroked in again.  She was able to take all of me then and I did it again, only a little faster.  I stroked into her several more times, each time going a little faster. 

“Oh my fucking god!” She yelled as she came.  She was squeezing me so hard I couldn’t believe it.  I couldn’t hold off any longer and came with a shout. 

“That feels amazing.  Feeling you flood me with your come was too cool.”  She held me tight and I slowly stroked into her.  


 
Back in those days I could stay hard for what seemed like forever and we spent the rest of the afternoon and evening making love to each other.  We made love just about everywhere during our time together, on my motorcycle, as well as in and on my jeep.  We made love in the mountains, down in the desert, and in all the local reservoirs and lakes.  As long as we were making love we got along fine, but other times, well, that’s why we’re not together still.

One thing that was pretty cool was to have her sit on my lap with my cock against her belly and realize how far into her it went when we fucked.  I’m not exceptionally hung, but I guess I’m longer than average (7.5 inches or 19 cm for all y’all across the pond.)

This was the 70’s and you didn’t have to worry about fatal STDs, like AIDs and things like that, in addition, nearly every young woman used oral birth control, so the use of condoms was very limited.  Oh, the good old days.  LOL

I hope you enjoyed the story.  It’s a true story, and as I stated at the beginning, I can still recall almost all the dialog, and can still recall the smells and feelings at the time.

Oh yeah, she was my one and only virgin.  She’d had lots of sex before we met, but she’d never been penetrated vaginally by a cock before me.





Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Jeri; Chapter 2 – The action continues, now with Amy along with Jeri



Amy dropped to her knees and took the head of my cock between her lips, running her tongue around the head and pushing it into the slit.   

I moaned and couldn’t help but thrust against her.  She pulled back and smiled up at me and Jeri and said, “God, you two taste wonderful together.”  She took me again, but she couldn’t take all of me as Jeri had.  Her tongue swirled around my shaft and head and into the slit making me shudder.  I reached down and pulled her up, then lifted her onto the counter and dropped to my knees.  I kissed my way from her knees to the apex of her thighs and buried my face in her naked wet pussy.   I kissed, licked, and sucked on her labia, eventually sliding two long fingers into her and curling them upwards drawing them in and out against the patch of sensitive tissues there.  She grabbed the back of my head and pulled me against her when I sucked her clit into my mouth and laved the little head hard with my tongue.  I felt her convulse and thrust hard, almost bruising my lips, when she shouted and came.  

I stood quickly and in one thrust buried my cock in her tight pussy.  She wrapped her legs around my hips, locking her ankles in the small of her back, and leaned back against the cabinets.  I pulled out and thrust into her again, then again, gradually gaining speed until I was pounding into her.  “Oh fuck yes, harder, yes, fuck me harder!” She yelled.

Jeri, leaned over and kissed my neck, licked and sucked just behind my ear lobe.  She slipped off the counter and slid her hands between my ass cheeks fondling my balls, scraping her nails lightly along my perineum and circling my anus with her finger tip.  My anus was still slick with our juices and she slid her index finger into me to the first joint.  I groaned and began thrusting even harder into Amy and when Jeri pushed her finger against me as I withdrew from Amy, it was buried fully in my ass.  She stroked my prostate with the tip of her finger and reached under and began fondling my balls.  That was all I could handle and I yelled out as I emptied myself into Amy.  Amy came when I came, squeezing me against her with her legs. 

Jeri wrapped her arms around both of us and buried her head between our chests.

My legs sagged and I held myself up by holding onto the counter.

“I think we deserve drinks.”  Jeri said as she turned away.  She pulled a bottle out of the cupboard and poured three shot glasses full of tequila.  I stepped over to the fridge, opened it and there on the shelf was a plate of lime slices.  I grabbed the plate, turned and saw the salt shaker by the stove, and snatched it up.  I stepped over to Jeri, leaned down and licked her right breast and nipple and salted it, I slurped the salt off her breast, suckling for a second of so on her hard nipple, downed the shot of tequila, and munched down on a slice of lime.  Jeri grinned at me, took the salt, winked at Amy, knelt down and took my cock in her mouth, making sure it was good and wet.  She salted it well, holding it out straight in her hand, turned to Amy, who had knelt beside her, and they licked the salt off my cock, took their shots and munched on their limes. 

Looking at those two ladies licking my cock brought it back to life and it started to get hard again.  “Jesus ladies, you’re going to kill this old man!” 

“What ‘old man?’”  Stated Jeri, smiling at me.  “Fuck you’re in better shape than 90% of guys ½ your age!”  She grabbed the plate of limes and the salt, looked over her shoulder and said, “Bring that bottle, we’re hitting the pool.”  She darted out the back door and Amy and I followed.  Amy slid her hand between my ass cheeks, placed her finger against my anus, looked up into my eyes, and grinned.  I slid my hand between the cheeks of her butt, and slid my middle finger up to the first joint in her ass.  She moaned and leaned against me.  My mind went to things that were to come.

Jeri was floating in the pool, her arm stretched out on the edge of her pool, and her head laid back.  I knelt down and kissed her upside down.  She kissed me back, hard, thrusting her tongue into my mouth.  “You don’t mind that I fucked Amy, do you?”

“Fuck no.  I expected that if I fucked you, you’d end up fucking Amy too.”  She grinned and pulled me into the water.  I slid between her thighs and pressed my cock against her pussy, thrusting against her so that the shaft and head of my cock stroked her clitoris.  I played with her nipples, and smiled down at her.  She grinned back up at me.  I pulled her into my arms and kissed her.  She wrapped her legs around my hips and I walked her up out of the pool and laid her down on a chaise lounge.  I moved between her thighs and began kissing her pussy, gently sucking her labia between my lips, and eventually licking and sucking on her clitoris.  It wasn’t long before she was ready to come, and as she did I rose up and slowly buried my cock in her tight, wet pussy.  I continued to ride her through her orgasm, and eventually brought her to another one.  I hovered over her holding myself up by my arms, but keeping my cock in her, just slowly stroking in and out. 

I rolled to the side, my cock slipping out of her, and lay there looking down at her in the golden light of the setting sun, a satiated young woman.  I could not stop myself from grinning at her. 

Out of the corner of my eye I saw Amy arc into the pool in a beautiful dive.  I hopped off the chaise and dove in after her.  I caught up with her at the end of the pool and wrapped my arms around her, cupping her breasts in my hands and rolling the hard nipples between my fingers.  My cock was pressed against her ass and she ground it against my cock.  I pressed forward and she arched back and my cock slid into her pussy.  I stroked into her as she thrust back against me.  I reached down and placed my index and middle fingers on either side of her clit and began to massage it in a circular fashion.  Amy moaned loudly and began to thrust back against me harder.  It wasn’t long before she came.  I stopped thrusting and just felt her contract on my cock as I gently massaged her clit through her orgasm. 
 
“Fuck, you are amazing!”

“What do you mean?”  I asked.
“You seem to last forever and you never get soft.” 

“It’s you and Jeri, not me.  As long as you two keep playing with me, I’ll stay hard.”  I grinned and hopped out of the pool and sat on the edge. 

She stroked my cock with her hand, and then sucked my balls into her mouth, one at a time.  She kissed and licked my cock, hopped out of the pool and laid back on the warm tile beside the pool.  I lay back beside her and looked up at the clear blue desert sky. 

I drug myself to my feet, helped Amy to hers, and wandered over to Jeri, who was zoning on the chaise.  I pulled another chaise next to hers and crawled onto it and snuggled up against Jeri; Amy cuddled up against me and we all laid there and quietly petted each other. 

A while later we trooped inside, had a couple more shots of tequila, and made some dinner.  

After dinner Jeri and Amy looked at me slyly and said, “How about a little bondage tonight?” 





Jeri - Chapter 1


I’d sent her an e-mail that I was coming to town for a couple nude modeling jobs and she insisted that she pick me up from the airport and take me to her house for dinner.  We hadn’t seen each other for more than 6 years, but when I walked out into the baggage claim area I recognized her immediately.  Her face lit up with the wonderful smile that I remembered and when she leaped into my arms she felt wonderful.  She was dressed to the nines, in a low-cut blouse, a short skirt, and her long legs encased in seamed nylons, showing off her tight little body and gorgeous legs.  Her blond hair flowed past her shoulders and her blue eyes were shining. 

“God you look beautiful.”  I said as her mouth descended on mine.  She kissed me hard, her tongue darting around my lips, then into my mouth.  I held her tight little body against me as I kissed her back letting her feel my cock grow hard against her.

“Mmmm, you taste good, and feel better.”  She said as she pressed her pelvis against mine.  “By-the-way, I like the kilt.”

I let her down and she grabbed my hand and when we’d found my suitcase on the carousel, she essentially dragged me out of the terminal and to the parking lot.  She tossed me the keys as we approached her car and said, “You drive.”  The car was parked in the farthest corner of the dark parking garage.

I punched the button on her key fob, unlocking her little sports car, opened the passenger’s door and let her in.  She sat on the seat and swung her legs into the car being very obvious about flashing me her naked little pussy as she did so.  I grinned slyly at her and she looked back at me with the most innocent look, and then smiled and laughed.

I slid into the driver’s seat and turned to her.  I reached behind her head and pulled her to me and kissed her hard, my hands roaming over her breasts and belly.  She slid her hand up my thigh under my kilt and wrapped her hand around my hard cock.  “Oh god, I’ve wanted to do that ever since we made out in the park after you took me to lunch all those years ago.  I knew you’d be big, but not as big as you are.  But remember what I said?  This is what I really wanted to do.”  She leaned over, and pulling my kilt out of the way, took my entire cock into her mouth, the head sliding down her throat. 

“Oh fuck girl that feels so amazing!”  I groaned, unable to keep from thrusting up against her.  She licked and sucked, and swirled her tongue all around the head of my cock, then took the entire length of me, her nose pressed against my belly.  She stroked up and down my full length, swallowing the head and making me moan.  She stroked my cock with her mouth and throat, and then concentrated on the head as she stroked my shaft with her hand. 
I reached over and slid my hand up her skirt.  She spread her legs and I cupped her pussy, slick with evidence of her arousal.  I slid two fingers up her tight pussy and then quickly found her engorged clit with my thumb.  I circled her clit with my fingers and felt her groan on my cock. 

“Oh shit, girl, you’re going to make me cum.”

She looked up at me and smiled, then went back down on me.  I groaned again, and then thrust up against her, cumming hard.  She swallowed, but there was too much and some of my cum oozed around her lips and down her chin.  I pulled her face to mine and kissed her hard, slurping up the cum that was running down her chin.  I pulled her into my lap facing me and buried my cock in her tight pussy in one long slow thrust.  She whimpered a bit then began to moan.  She leaned back against the steering wheel and began to ride me.  I placed the pad of my thumb on her clitoris and stroked against her hard.  “Oh fuck!”  She cried out and came hard, falling forward against my chest, still rocking her pussy on my cock.  I held her by the hips and thrust hard up into her again and again.  She regained her composure and began to ride me hard.  I could feel her juices collecting on my balls, it made me so hot to think she was that aroused.  She started to moan and then gasped in my ear, “You’re going to make me come again.”  I could feel the contractions of her pussy and she cried out and I came with her.

She collapsed against my chest and just held me, her pussy still contracting, nursing the last of my cum from my cock. “Oh fuck that felt good.  I didn’t expect to get so horny when I saw you.  I figured we’d take our time and maybe end up in bed together tonight.  I wanted to take you down there in the airport and fuck you right there in front of everyone.  I’ve never been so horny in my life.”  She kissed me hard and by the time she was done, I was hard again. 

“Hell girl, I didn’t think we’d even get to the point where we’d kiss after the way you broke off our e-mails last we conversed. 

We’d better get out of here before security shows up and we end up spending the night in jail.”  I grinned at her as she climbed off me.  She leaned down and sucked and licked the combination of our juices off my cock and balls.

“God, we taste good together.” Jeri said grinning up at me. 

I kissed her hard, burying two fingers in her pussy.  I pulled them out and licked them.  “You’re sure right about that.  We taste wonderful together.”

As we drove to her house she continued to play with my cock, occasionally leaning down and sucking on it and fondling my balls, keeping me hard the entire drive.  I spent the drive trying to keep from running anyone over and keeping the car on the road.  When I wasn’t trying to keep us alive, I was playing with Jeri’s beautiful hard nipples. 

We got to her house without incident and by the time I was a foot inside the door Jeri had whipped off my belt and pulled open my Utilikilt and I was naked from the waist down.  I hoisted Jeri in my arms; she wrapped her legs around me and I reached between us and guided my cock into her tight, wet pussy.  I carried her into the kitchen fucking her as we went, her blond hair whipping about, and plopped her beautiful tight ass on the counter and began to pound my cock into her, holding her in place by the hips.

Jeri screamed out as she came again, and I dropped to my knees and began to lick her and suck on her clitoris.  I rose back up and upon burying my cock in her pussy began to fuck her again.

I was thrusting away when I felt hands on my ass, squeezing and rubbing.  I stopped short and looked over my shoulder and saw a very pretty brunette just a few inches away from my face. 

“Hi, I’m Amy.”  She smiled, leaned forward and kissed me.   She then slid her hand between my legs and began to fondle my balls.

“Jeri, didn’t you say you weren’t planning on fucking this guy?”

“Oh fuck, Amy.  That was before I saw him.  I forgot how much he turned me on.  Oh, and fuck you’ve got to see his cock.”  She slid back from me and I turned to face Amy. 

“Fuck girl, he’s big and beautiful.  I’ll bet he feels wonderful!”