"What the hell is it about you and cowboys? What turns you on so much about them?"

"Tight jeans, great ass, and a voice to melt your heart!"

"Carrie! What a way to talk to your mother!"

"You asked!"

"You don't have to be so crude about it."

"That's the only language you understand. I'm twenty-five years old, not a virgin, and I can see whom I want. I practice safe sex and have a purse with condoms in it, and know what I am doing. There's nothing wrong with a girl that has a healthy sexual appetite."

"My Lord, if your father could hear you right now!"

Carrie watched her mother fan her face. Probably another hot flash. "It wouldn't do you any harm to go out and date a little. It just might improve your attitude. Daddy wouldn't want you to shrivel up and not live your life."