Submitted by tom.a last July 7th 2007, 12:07 PM

I remember thinking he was the best looking man I had ever seen.

True, in all of my eighteen years I hadn’t exactly “been around”…..at least not outside of rural Oklahoma. Just the same, he had a kind of intense masculinity that is still hard to forget. He couldn’t have been more than thirty-five, but he was unlike any other adult male I had ever seen. Even now, I think of the unreal blue of his eyes and the dark brown hair that swooped and curled across his forehea