And I care about you."My heart beat faster when I heard that, but the pain of my failure wasstill far too real. I did not feel free to pursue that mat...er quite then.But I had another question. "I need to ask you about when you shot thatguard, Marcus. How long had you been watching me?" I was closing in on you for about the last mile, but I didn't reallycatch up with you until he stopped you." It was that close?" It was that close." Do you have any idea how strange it feels to be the damsel in. His girlfriend Gloria was part ofthe reason. She wanted more: always more. Trips to France, and theislands, several times a year. A big house that he really didn'tneed, and then a maid to keep it tidy. Gloria was still inuniversity, taking as few courses as possible to keep her standing,and to keep from having to get a job. She was happy so long as shehad a rich lawyer boyfriend to pay her way. She wore an engagementring on her finger that had cost $65,000. Three months' salary wasthe standard,. As I told you in my last letter, before I got distracted by some of our newest sprite's activities she convinced me that I really needed to examine myself to see what my objection was to several young men that she had met who recently took the CAP test with scores that made them unable to be sponsors. I was running some personality comparisons through the AI trying to refine a formula that might help increase the success of families. She asked why I wasn't looking at our family. When I answered. Nan was getting older and she was starting to forget what it was like to be young. Although Mike came to see her at least three times a week, he noticed her slow degeneration."There must be something I can do for her," he thought to himself. He would play card and board games with her just to keep her mind active. One day she surprisingly suggested that they have a game of ‘Strip Poker.” He was horrified. Nan told him not to worry that she used to play when she was younger. Mike explained that.