"I just don't know, Jodi. I'm not sure thatI'm ready for marriage." Ok," she shook her head, "but I think you need to figure that outpretty soon, beca...se I think that Mitch might be."As we continued to talk, a hostess came along and handed us two pairs ofpajamas, one for me and one for Mitch. Jodi asked for hers as well andthe hostess found them and gave them to her. Jodi looked about and sawthat no one had headed for the three changing rooms to get ready forbed. "Come on," she smiled, "let's. Then, there was a long pause. "I am glad I got to see you, it seems like forever since you were at my house every night." Ha yea, you looked a lot different back then. I couldn't even tell it was you, I had to ask J.T." I said with a laugh."Yea, everyone tells me I look just like Megan. It's really annoying!" She said."You do look like her a little, but you also look a lot different." I said.She gave me a little smile then said "I'm glad you see me that way. I don't think I look anything like. I worried for nothing. It was all a distraction and bluff to get me to go out with you. Why didn’t you ask me out?”“Yes, that precisely sums it up. It was on the tip of my tongue to ask you before I found the bags. I should have just asked you out and not taken no for an answer. I can be very persistent. You don’t know it yet, but you will like me given a chance. Did I tell how lovely you look today?” “Why are you telling me about the bags, and all of this now? I can now walk away.” “I’m. Women built community not men. Menmight found communities but it was women who developed them. Why?Because individual failure became community failure just as individualsuccess became community success.In my last year at university I found myself spending more and more timewith Angela. We had planned to do things as a group but then no one elseturned up. First was a pizza night. It was a bit awkward at first butas I chatted with Angela I realised that we had a lot more in common thanI had.