I was twenty four when seventeen year old Rena Christiansen walked out of that dark doorway. It was the summer of 1970. Rena later told me she was eighteen. I caught her in a lie after she told me she was skipped a grade. She was a straight A student who dismissed my concerns she telling me the age of consent in Nebraska was thirteen. She had become sexually active at this age and made it clear to me she enjoyed sex and intended to become exceedingly good at it. Being an Aries, she was into fires that could not be put out. Being a Libra, there was a drama between us, and energy that we played with on a level that one could describe as enlightened.

We discovered this energy while lying on a friends floor, we having just drove up from LA. In the dark, our finger tips…