I admire what you're doing. It's so, you know, different. I think what you're doing is fascinating and I love your work and I just think you're a real...y interesting, really nice person." It wasn't exactly what Tracy wanted to hear but it felt nice regardless and she knew Karen was being sincere. The last things she wanted to do was alienate her new friend so they hugged goodbye with promises of seeing one another again.Before the week was out, Karen called and asked if it was okay if she. A week before the concert in Boston, Don Vito called me, "So what time are you picking my daughter up for the concert?" I wasn't invited as her guest, " I replied."Percy, don't be stupid. You're all I've heard about since Thanksgiving. Call her; I'll arrange the transportation and accommodations." Yes, Dad." Percy, you're an asshole."I was still laughing as I hung up the phone.I called Angela. "Why did you wait so long?" were the first words out of her mouth. "I have all this planning to do.. Now I was eighteen and still in high school.Meeting her at the train station, here she was: a big woman, tall and beautiful with a skirt shorter than women of her age were wearing in those years, tight around this enormous butt that I remembered so intensely. High heels made her strong curvaceous legs look very sexy, a loose white blouse left her shoulders free; there were no bra straps.I noticed that she had not put on any weight. Her waist was still delicately narrow, her overwhelming breasts. The company is closely held, but the founders and majority stockholders have been at this for twenty-five years. They’re getting tired of playing Caesar and are looking around every corner for potential assassins. That includes your boss and mine. It’s clear to me that neither of us was brought here to do the job for which HR has a description. What’s less clear is that we may not have been brought to do the job our bosses described either. Watch your back.” She let me soak that in for a minute.