More to the point, self-centeredness."The moment she said the word "self-centered", something stirred in the back of my memory."At the heart of busine...s is the idea of competition," Professor Isakova continued. "Company A wants to make money off of customer X. Company B also wants to make money off customer X. But customer X only has so much money, so Companies A and B must compete for it, no?"The class more or less nodded. A couple of students raised their hands with their own ideas."But let's. One of the new guys (We'll call him Rob) was flirting with me most of the weekend. I really wasn't that into him at first, he was a little too preppy for me, but we ended up kissing on the dance floor at a club called Dirty/Pretty. When it was time to crash, he ended up crawling in bed with me and we started hooking up. We were both pretty drunk (which really helped what was about to come) and he was going down on me before I even had my clothes all the way off, my undies were still on one of. Louis and heard from them when they wrote letters a couple of times a month. Their mom, Patty, wrote to them to talk about how we were, too. Eunice’s two girls were aging out of school and didn’t know what they wanted to do. One was a little sweet on Grant Parker’s son and thought she might just take over the General Store if she married him, but wasn’t sure. The other was like Rebecca, and more interested in a young man from a neighboring farm. He seemed to be a good man and the couple had met. .." Suddenly, I began to feel a bit queasy about where this conversation was headed." ... then I would like you to go out tomorrow and purchase a new wardrobe. Throw out all that old dumpy stuff and buy some new things. Sexier things. I can afford to have you buy 40 or 50 new wardrobes, so money's not a problem."My queasiness was growing rapidly, "Please," I begged him, "no..."Michael looked at me hard and suddenly I was overwhelmed with full-blown nausea. I ran into the bathroom and threw up.