Dear Adam (20 page)

From: Adam -

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 9:45 AM

To: Eden E

Keep it until tomorrow morning at most.

8 or 9 there.

No idea what the fight was about.

Uniform.

No comment on the picture itself?

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From: Eden E

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 9:48 AM

To: Adam -

You look defiant. And your eyes - it doesn't
look like it was your first fight. Who took the picture and why?
You didn't want your photo taken? Surely there were other pictures
taken of you when you were a child.

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From: Adam -

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 9:49 AM

To: Eden E

There were. My father threw a lot away once
in a fit of rage.

I was defiant. By no means my first
fight.

My Uncle took it.

I didn't want it taken.

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From: Eden E

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 9:52 AM

To: Adam -

What would happen when you got in fights?
Would you get a talk from your father or your uncle? Would you be
punished?

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From: Adam -

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 9:53 AM

To: Eden E

It depended on the circumstances. My father
didn't hit me until I was 14. It was always verbal before then.

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From: Eden E

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 9:55 AM

To: Adam -

Is your father big? Do you look like him?
What were the usual reasons of why you got in fights?

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From: Adam -

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 9:56 AM

To: Eden E

I look nothing like him. He is not big, but
strong.

There were a plethora of reasons. Being
different never helped. And being bigger than the other children
often served as a challenge to some of them.

Has seeing those pictures improved things
for us?

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From: Eden E

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 10:05 AM

To: Adam -

It's the strangest thing. I'm bound to this
through words. Through voice. And now I have images.

This second one. You look as though you
would have rebuffed or shrugged off anyone who wanted to help you.
Would anything have worked with you, you think?

Yes.

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From: Adam -

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 10:06 AM

To: Eden E

Strange?

Worked with me?

I sense that you are still looking at
them.

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From: Eden E

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 10:10 AM

To: Adam -

Yes I'm still looking at them. My first look
at you and you don't think I'd pore over every detail?

I don't know why I assumed the fights were
initiated by you. I'm sorry. You got in fights because you got
picked on. I assumed that you were very angry as a child.

Yes, this whole thing is strange. You don't
agree?

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From: Adam -

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 10:12 AM

To: Eden E

Strange, but I wouldn't change it.

Of course.

No, rarely initiated by me. I wasn't picked
on per se.

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From: Eden E

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 10:15 AM

To: Adam -

So would you have rebuffed or shrugged off
anyone who wanted to help you?

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From: Adam -

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 10:16 AM

To: Eden E

I don't know. Perhaps.

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From: Eden E

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 10:17 AM

To: Adam -

You don't ever let anyone take your picture
now.

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From: Adam -

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 10:18 AM

To: Eden E

Not in about 8 or 9 years.

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From: Eden E

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 10:18 AM

To: Adam -

And what excuse do you give? Or people just
instinctively know not to insist?

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From: Adam -

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 10:20 AM

To: Eden E

People either know me well enough not to, or
instinctively know not to. There have been a few that have tried,
and I've politely asked them not to. And I've lost it with a few
people over the years who wouldn't let it go.

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From: Eden E

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 10:21 AM

To: Adam -

You've become angry and you don't usually
lose your temper?

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From: Adam -

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 10:26 AM

To: Eden E

Yes, I have become angry. I don't usually
lose my temper, indeed. I have a high threshold of patience.

I think we are moving in leaps and bounds
now every day, at lightning speed. That would normally concern me,
but with us, it doesn't.

I've always thought, in a truly trusting and
loving relationship, a man could show real vulnerability behind
closed doors with his woman, and it not affect her vision of him.
I've never been in this situation, and the one time I did show it
(I mentioned to you already), she decided to sleep with a mutual
close friend.

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From: Eden E

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 10:41 AM

To: Adam -

We are moving very fast and that's why I was
having such a hard time earlier this week. I was resisting. And now
I'm not.

When I'm in, I'm in.

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From: Adam -

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 10:52 AM

To: Eden E

Attach: AP.jpg

What do you think of these panties from
Agent Provocateur?

Eden downloaded the photos. They were of a
pair of black silk panties, high cut with a heart-shaped cutout in
the back.

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From: Eden E

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 11:00 AM

To: Adam -

No need to tell me, I will delete these
images immediately.

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From: Adam -

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 11:01 AM

To: Eden E

Stop being silly, and just tell me your
opinion please.

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From: Eden E

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 11:03 AM

To: Adam -

Why?

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From: Adam -

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 11:05 AM

To: Eden E

I consider that a more classic style,
forgetting the window in the back. I like said classic style. I
thought I might send you a pair and you can see if you like
them.

Eden went to the Agent Provocateur website
and was appalled. Every pair of panties cost at least 50 sterling
pounds, approximately $75. And she thought that springing $30 for a
lacy pair at Victoria's Secret was a splurge.

From: Eden E

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 11:09 AM

To: Adam -

They're really not my style, to be honest.
Besides I have plenty of KNICKERS.

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From: Adam -

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 11:11 AM

To: Eden E

Why do you insist on torturing me with that
word?

I've been looking at this. I'm really
tempted. I keep thinking, behave, Adam, then I find myself going
back to the link and looking at it. http://goo.gl/Q23H0. I wouldn't
be able to do anything with it now, but it's such a good price and
has so much potential. Another blank canvas. What do you think?

Eden clicked on the link, which led her to a
UK realty website. It landed on a page for property in Siracusa,
Sicily. It was of a very ancient-looking cottage in disrepair, with
a clay roof and boarded up windows. Other pictures showed green
fields and rows and rows of olive trees. The asking price was
87,000 sterling pounds, approximately $137,000.

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From: Eden E

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 11:18 AM

To: Adam -

Why aren't there photos of the inside? Does
the property include all that land?

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From: Adam -

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 11:20 AM

To: Eden E

It does include the land. I imagine it's a
tragic mess inside. Thoughts?

And regarding what I said about
vulnerability?

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From: Eden E

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 11:25 AM

To: Adam -

Well the Google images for that town look
gorgeous, especially of the water. But from the Google maps it
looks like it's in the middle of farmlands. What would you do with
it? Live there sometimes? Or are you just simply enchanted with its
potential? From what you've said, you haven't even begun with the
ruin you have now.

I think that vulnerability should be present
and equal between the couple. You were so forthcoming with your
answers to my endless questions that that led me to let myself be
vulnerable with you. It wasn't completely easy for me, again why I
was so resistant earlier.

And I am vulnerable to you, I hope you know
that.

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From: Adam -

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 11:41 AM

To: Eden E

Sorry for the delay darling, was doing a
meet and greet.

Enchanted with its potential really. It
could serve a number of purposes. It would have to sit empty for at
least a year, but that's no reason not to consider it.

I didn't really know that to be honest. I've
tried to be forthcoming.

Thoughts on the property??

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From: Eden E

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 11:42 AM

To: Adam -

I'm uncomfortable telling you what to do
with your money. But if you want me to dissuade you, I'll do my
best.

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From: Adam -

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 11:43 AM

To: Eden E

No, no, not at all. I'd like to know what
you think of the idea in general?

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From: Eden E

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 11:44 AM

To: Adam -

It's hard to say without seeing it in
person. I go by intuition a lot whenever I make important
decisions, and being there would guide my intuition. Is it easily
reachable from where you are right now? You should at least go over
there first before seriously considering the matter. If this is a
bargain, would it soon be snapped up? Is the real estate market
booming in that part of the world? It does look like a lot of work.
But the land. How much land is it exactly?

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From: Adam -

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 11:45 AM

To: Eden E

4 hectares. Why such interest in the
land?

It's not booming at all, but I think it will
get snapped up quickly

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From: Eden E

Date: Sat, Aug 11, at 11:48 AM

To: Adam -

Because there doesn't appear to be any close
neighbors. And personally I like the idea of land. I live in a
townhouse so I'm jealous of so much acreage.

It does look very lovely and rustic. The
pictures were probably taken in spring, it looks like. So it's been
on the market for a few months. I say make a visit. You cannot
think on this without seeing it first.