[bryony]

I get the feeling that the only reason they were "friends" is because they shared that singular ambition. In which case, it makes perfect sense that as that shared ambition changed, the relationship ended. Of course, it doesn't sound like a friendship to begin with, but that's my best guess.

Good point. I suppose I was using my own definition of "friend" when I read that.

A friend will help you move. A true friend will help you move a body!

As far as baring them... I do hang around a number of pagans and polyamorous types, so I don't find nudity bothersome in the slightest. I wasn't raised that way, to be sure, but I can see where people would get a hangup about it.

I must say, as someone who spent most of my life going to and from the shower with a towel around the waist, I find it a bit weird wearing it around my armpits. It's not that I care who sees them, just that it might make them feel uncomfortable.

Of course, with the picture gallery, when it's just the neck down I care even less who has a look see.

All in the furtherance of human knowledge, eh?

B.