eal Nett fasast® TKhe. . wot vue vow. aw hard A2 - Wednesday, June 3, 1981 - North Shore News strictly personal and at this particular stage of life was just starting to have prepubescent biological stirrings which instantly collided with the church's teachings about sin and how he'd punish you if you played dirty or anthing like that. Well. Zap! Suffice to say I quickly confessed my sin to anyone who would listen, got by Bob Hunter A punishing game KS where I couldn't scratch. One last detail: Every night, I'd pour a bottle of Calamipe lotion into my open wounds so that the itch would be burned away long enough for me to be wrapped from head to toe in bandages, then put to bed wearing gloves, my body surrounded by pillows, in the normal existence The itching finally away and I started up the courage to sex again. Slowly, nefvous Stance « upward oye my shoulder, 1 inche way to freedom influence of the church. I can’t remember her name. Or even her face. I can’t remember anything about her, except that the two of us sneaked away from home one afternoon and went and layed doctor in the bush skin, usually following the path of my fingernails. In hardly any time at all, I was criss-crossed_ with maddening bumps and hope that I might be able to smartly down on my knees, get through the night without and prayed! I bonged. I scratching. whined. I wheedled. I of- Every once in. a while it worked. But mostly 'd wake fered deals. across the street, until we heard one of our - M unishment lasted up in the middle of the night, . coincidence, that j _ mothers yelling. | Conn wae to ectuge them to seven full years. Every crazy with torment, stagger couldn't have bee Hurriedly, we put our In our innocence, the little the: point where they'd spring thereafter, until 1958, into the bathroom, and rip punishment. I mean, clothes back on. girl and I played doctor ina bleed. At least, for a few aS soon as the first green bud the bandages loose so if kind of a God woul I was nine years old. It was clump of poison ivy. precious moments, the it- appeared on the nearest could claw at my flesh, uptight? : my very first real experience The next morning I woke ching would be replaced by tree, l'd break out in blisters opening everything up again, I take comfort in: with sex. up to find myself covered pain. — ~ and start to itch. making it raw. . that I'm , normal _It also turned out to be my with horrible blisters that _ There were a couple of In the mirror, I'd see a thought of sex, of very first real experience were unbearably itchy. “ee summers, near the -end, creature that looked like a_ get itchy. with punishment. Real When I scratched, the To give you the full where the recurrence of the blood-soaked mummy But then, punishment. Punishment on blisters burst and a colorless flavor of this experience, I Poison Ivy was attended bya emerging from its crypt. everyone? . the scale that poor old Job must have suffered. Victoria West Vancouver Mayor Derrick Humphreys took several: swings Monday at the provincial government for its part in the hefty tax - increases facing most West Van homeowners this year. Noting that ‘Victoria had cut off ‘all funding for the West Van school system as ‘ fluid spilled out over the unblemished parts of my message’ should: go forward to the provincial government from all parts of ‘the province. ~The mayor also criticized the provincial assessment authority as “a secret society for our residents”. Despite the annual $383,000 paid by the municipality for that must tell you that 1 was raised as a Roman Catholic, < slammed for tax increases governments came under further attack by Hum- phreys, .as did the inadequate provincial ambulance service which placed an added strain on the municipal fire depart- ment. In other comments Humphreys revealed that well as seizing -a further assessment “service”, most time spent in labor $400,000.:of.. muni unicipal tax . of the authority's senior staff. negotiaions costs West Van money for “the common pot were absent last week, he about $100,000a year. elsewhere in the province”, said, making it impossible Meanwhile, he said, Humphreys renewed his call for many taxpayers to check municipalities were hoping for removing school the background for their for provincial legislation this financing from. land increased assessments. fall which would permit ownership altogether. 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