I had gotten a great job at a tire manufacturing plant in the payroll department, where I became good friends with Courtney the head secretary. Over the next five months we became almost inseparable, but I did find it odd that Courtney never wanted to meet my husband and she always seemed to disappear when my husband came and visited me in the office.

One night last year she invited me out with her two girlfriends to a dance club. When we arrived, I felt really nervous and out of place because it was an all black dance club and we were the only three white women in there. When I told Courtney that I was nervous, she went into her purse and gave me a pill and told me that it'll relax me. About 20 minutes later and 3 vodka and tonics, I was feeling really good. That's when this very big muscular 40-something black guy came over and asked me to dance.