You'd be running around doing routine gofer work, but at the same time, you'd get an insider's idea of the way things really work in running a company... I believe, at the end of the summer, your views would be radically altered." I've already been offered a job, for eight dollars an hour." I'll match that, and we'll throw in room and board. Bertie, we'll give her Beatrice's old room, if that's all right? That would solve her living situation. Are you afraid your ideas won't stand up in the real. A little bit of star stuff, right there in front of me.‘Star stuff’. I read now. As in “You NEED to read,” she says. “Not just textbooks. Fiction. History. Expand your mind to other worlds, other possibilities.” So I read. ‘Star stuff’ comes from that. I need more words to say how she affects me.A couple of oddities I didn’t expect: There is no more “me time”. It has become “us time”, because she demands that it be this way. We sleep, shower, eat, cook (except at the Pavilion), wash dishes,. She let him join the group and buy her a drink. She learned his name was Kevin and that he was a construction worker. They talked, they laughed, and they danced. She was so captivated by him that she never noticed when her friends left or the time until the bartender called out, ‘last call for alcohol.’ They paid their bill and walked outside. They hesitated not wanting the night to end. They decided to go for coffee. She headed for her car and he said, ‘Tracey, why don’t you ride with me?’ She. .. It, it is too deep. We, we might get swept away." The river moves slowly here," he reassured her. "When we reach the deeper water close to the other side, I want you to hold onto me and I will bring us both the rest of the way. It is not as far a distance as you think." I ... do not know, Jakal. Can we not find another way?" We must cross sometime, and this great river stretches beyond anything we can see. I truly believe this place is the best location to go back over to the other side.".