Sentence:  The letters took their source from a stream of my imagination in which I was transformed into a young man not unlike my bunkmate Eliot Sands - he of the porch steps anecdotes - who smoked cigarettes , performed the tango , wore fifty dollar suits , and sneaked off into the <WSD>dark</WSD> with girls to do unimaginable things with them . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside