It was a night that changed her and taught her a dire lesson: "Shame can be sexually transmitted".
Pletka draws a direr lesson than John Burns about the yearning both imputed to the Iraqis who have since disappointed them.
Surely every schoolchild's fantasies about what the principal does when nobody's looking are a little more dire than "she takes dancing lessons with her boyfriend and really, really shakes it loose".
"At a time when there is an appetite and momentum for radical change in Scottish football, it is important that we learn lessons from this dire situation and work together to provide a platform for clubs to thrive and prosper within their means".
Part selfish wish for peace in the Middle East, part educational look into past history to apply its lessons to our dire-looking future, part personal journey into human feelings I never wanted to experience, Censored Voices unleashed a thoughtful, deeply moving moment in time.
Which is why a documentary about this particular direct action group is so important, because we're in dire need of a good history lesson.
The Iraq saga has been a lesson of historical magnitude of the dire consequences of inept leadership.
We learn in the first chapter that an astronaut, Alex Humphries, has died on Venus, trying to discover if the planet's overheated environment holds any lessons for a 21st-century Earth undergoing dire climate changes triggered by greenhouse warming.
However, these uninvited visitors brought with them new lessons for me: First, that grace is possible even under dire circumstances.
