”Price finished his explanation and simply continued to regard me with a contemplative look. No matter how I tried I couldn’t respond in any way. ... was for all practical purposes mute and paralized. There was that patronizing look again. I simply couldn’t understand. Sure I heard everything and knew what the words meant. But the wider context and meaning were lost. The most frustrating part was that I knew I was missing it. That if I could just think better I would understand. “You have a. Rose has always been very close to her Dad and she still gets in his bed every night and he reads to her for half an hour, sometimes more, and sometimes they just talk. Maybe you think that's pretty lame for a seventeen-year old girl but I think it was pretty nice. They're close and it's good that she can be close with her father. I'm not especially close with mine as he's a workaholic and not around much.I'm pretty close to her dad, too, we kid around a lot and he teases me and jokes around,. ”“You’ve been watching the news this summer?”“Some.”“And so you saw all the stuff about the Pathfinder probe?”Anyone who was alive and walked past a TV in the last two months would know what Pathfinder was. The cable news shows had been plastered with it since July, when Pathfinder reached Mars and the Sojourner rover started sending back pictures from the surface. The news had started to die down a bit for July, as the novelty wore off for most people, but it still showed up every week or. All four of us enjoy group sex whenever we get a chance. This is one of the reasons we go on our weekend trips.I was waiting to hear this all night.Akram: Wow. That’s crazy. You guys are very lucky. How did that happen? How did you convince them?Akbar: It was not easy. It took almost 3 to 4 years to convince them. They were very conservative. We had to be very patient and persistent to introduce them to the idea of wife swapping, group sex. But all our hard work had paid off, and after having.