Mary-Alice now lived her life to the fullest. Enjoyment was uppermost. It had not always bee so. When she was younger, Mary-Alice had often been left out of her brothers’ activities because, being older and boys, they played games that held little interest for her. Except for the usual childhood teasing, her brothers treated her decently. Eventually, her three brothers, Tommy, Nicky, and Ronny, who were respectively 14, 15, and 16, began to include her in their life.

The fun commenced when Mary-Alice was 13. One day her youngest brother Tommy invited her to join him in his room. Mary-Alice had been reading and had nothing better to do because she was bored with her book, her water colors, and even the TV programs. Their mom was out for the day and wouldn’t be back until late evening; dad was away on a business trip. Feeling a need for a new diversion, Mary-Alice followed Tommy into the bedroom he shared with their brother Nicky. She found Nicky was waiting for them, sitting on his bed.
“Mary-Alice,” Nicky asked, “do you want to play a game with us?”
“What kind of a game?” she asked.
“It’s very simple, Mary-Alice,” Tommy replied. “We take turns asking someone to take of part of his clothing. That’s how we begin.”
“And you must take it off to be allowed to ask the next person to remove something,” Nicky explained. “We take turns until we have nothing on; then the real fun begins.”

What an odd kind of game, Mary-Alice thought, but it sounded like a pleasant, maybe even exciting, way to spend some time, and so she agreed to play. She had seen her brothers naked before, and they had seen her, but that had all happened months, maybe years ago.