I was hoping to meet you," Mark said with a great deal of sincerity in his voice."Mark, we were just catching some rays. Join us and stay for dinner?"...inquired Ann like she didn't already know his response. "Sure, sounds like a plan to me. But I don't think I'm gonna' get any more tanned out here," he said sarcastically. Cindy chuckled as she settled back down on the lounge, her eyes grazing over Mark's giant frame as he lay back in a chair. Ann and I both got up and retrieved fresh new drinks. We talked about it, hell, we talk about it all the time, and Carrie is certain that it is so we can go away to college. I thought it was just me, ‘cause we can’t have three-legged babies.” Maggie said with a grin.“Seriously though, I will want kids someday, and as much as I love you to death, I know we can’t go there. So yeah, I will want to find some guy to love and marry someday, but not today, and not soon. So...“You can wiggle your fingers, or your nose, or whatever it is you do when you. He had a typical bachelor pad. I would have expected some feminine touches, with Beth’s influence, but there weren’t many. They seemed to be getting along better as a couple, though. I had Abigail for a partner, against Massimo and Darren. Abigail didn’t seem at all flustered by Massimo’s presence. And her bridge had improved: her bidding was crisper, her leads less hesitant. She also appeared to be comfortable with me. We won a nice rubber. In the second match, Carmen and I took on Darren and. I scoured through ten years of Playboy centerfolds till I found one that was just the right size and just the right pose. Then I cut out the girl’s body, cut off her head, and pasted it under the head of the old lady in the painting. I don’t know, I just thought the farmer looked happier after that.’ Everyone looked at him with a mixture of amazement and pity as he went through this dissertation. Jake said, ‘Drew the thing that worries me is that you would probably do the same damn thing today.