They'd spent a good deal of time shipboard discussing the basic tack that she and John Toshimura, his counterpart on the first visit, had taken about ...ocial matters, and she felt comfortable that he'd pursue roughly the same agenda.Of course, given the nature of the Edenites' collective and its "think-together" structure—the cognomen they'd taken to using for the telepathic linkage that allowed the natives to basically pool their individually limited mental powers into an awesomely powerful. Now it was time for Billy to kickoff the ball again, and everybody, including the Geneva football team, was wondering what he would do for an encore. Coach Holsmer figured that he had made his point, so this was a conventional kick which was downed in the endzone by a Geneva player, so the ball came out to their 20 yard line. Geneva showed remarkable resilience from their earlier surprises and managed to move the ball down to the Central 23 yard line. However, they went to the well once too. The situation was close to be unbearable, even if we still liked Ron.We pushed Ron to pick one of us to be his girl, but he dodged the subject like he was running from the devil. It was impossible to keep with this arrangement for long, but there wasn’t no sight of light on our way, until Nicole suggested a trip.“Where are you going for the spring break, Sandra?”“I don’t know, maybe I am thinking to visit my parents or go somewhere else. Why?”“I want to invite you come with me and Ron for the. " Oh, you're good." he grinned. "Since you were a marine are you coming back into the fold?" Yeah," I said. "You know the attitude. Once a marine, always a marine."He gave the expected snort of laughter.I stood and said, "I have to get over to where I was going to meet my daughter, so I'll look you up on board. And yes, I will keep quiet about what's going down."I strolled over to the Fair security booth and waved at a couple of marines casually sitting on the grass near there. I stood just.