A Scandalous Beauty (pt. I)

This is sent to me by Dr. Timothy McGrew at Western Michigan University (one of the graduate programs I'm considering). I first began talking with Dr. McGrew after he came across my "Socrates & Elton" piece (somehow linked from the C.S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea blog site) a while back. We've been talking since then. Anyway, he sent me this short story today after a conversation on the phone about