đ± I Was Still a Virgin at 26, and Dad Always Warned Me, âStop Sitting on Grandpaâs Lap and Be Careful Around Him.â I Never Listened⊠Until Grandpa Came to Me One Night and Asked, âWill You Sleep Beside Me Tonight?â đ I was twenty-six years old and had never been intimate with a man. It wasnât something I was ashamed of. I had dated a little, but I had never met anyone I trusted enough to take that step with. Strangely, my father seemed more concerned about the way I behaved around one particular man. My grandfather. Grandpa George had practically helped raise me. When I was little, I followed him everywhere. Even after I became an adult, I would hug him, lean against his shoulder while we watched television, and sometimes jokingly sit on his lap for a photograph like I had done since childhood. Dad hated it. âEmily, enough,â