I have been aggressive and somewhat domineering ever since I played basketball with the boys in the neighborhood. I was quite a tomboy and could keep up with the best of them and beat most of them.

When I went away to college, all that changed, or so I thought. I was now one of several thousand students, and a freshman to boot. I had always heard that you put on weight your first year at school because of the change in your level of activity. I was determined not to let that happen. On most Saturday nights, I went over to the intramural building to swim laps. There were not very many of us there, so I got to be friends with several of the other people who swam.

One in particular caught my fancy — Jim. He seemed very shy, and I had this feeling from the beginning that I could make him do anything I wanted,... Leer Más