You see ... it was when I learned her date ... her ... her birthdate. It reminded me..." Aha, yes, I understand ... she reminded you of a child you ne...er had, because of Popova." Yes, because of Popova." (5)"We understand Sveta, we understand. Did you know Popova had cancer? She was trying to build her own memorial, so to speak. I think she lost objectivity, too. Vyera was a very unlucky coincidence and..." And when Vyera proved to be such a nice person, I suppose I began to think of her as. Whilethis guy had his arm tight around her, JP couldn't help noticing he wasn'texactly looking "Ashley" in the eyes; his gaze was focused about a footlower, lost in the expanse of cleavage."Ashley, sweetie, I've got to run for more drinks," Kelly giggled. "Dancewith Paulo. He's a great dancer!"JP reluctantly lifted his fine fingers up into the rough grip of theoffered hand, and Kelly was gone in a flash with a kiss to the cheeks ofboth him and Paulo. Balance atop the high heels was still a. She desperately wants to springboard passed this introductory phase. She needs no introduction--the past few months have been nothing but prelude--but, of course, that's not possible."Yeah, I guess we sorta skipped that part. Nice to meet you." His brown eyes meet her blue ones, and they both stand still for a moment, holding hands.Gavin's eyes are the first to break contact, sliding down to the front of her bathing suit, and then twitching guiltily away.Good."You want to come inside and clean. She had made a decision. She looked almost relieved.We talked again, still on safe ground and not mentioning the site, but more relaxed because we could drop the pretence. I was trying to reboot, to get back to what would have happened if we hadn't known each other. The arrangement had been that we would have dinner together before or after. But that was when we were carefree, anonymous people communicating remotely."Shall we have dinner?" I asked."They serve until 10," she replied.# #.