I was around 14 when I discovered M&B at the neighborhood raddi wala - I remember being fascinated with those tales of damsels and of course, dark handsome men. I would choose the books based mostly on the front cover men.
It took about a year for me to get over the fascination with M&B but not before it managed to add to my vocabulary the word ``tumescence''. The sentence went something like, ``her hands slipped and touched his tumescence''. I can still feel the goose bumps that I got every time I read the word, but unable to explain the reason. The dictionary was of no help it gave the meaning as ``a swollen part or organ''. A late bloomer I think it was only a couple of years later that I actually understood what had swollen up - lol shibu
