I hadn’t seen her for a couple of years.”“I went to school with her and Sue. Nancy’s a good friend. Tell her I said hi.”“See you later, Ro.... Catch up some time, Rodger.” I turned and walked back to Nancy as the band started playing.I chatted to Nancy for a while until I noticed Sue looking at me out of the corner of my eye. I was never one for dancing but thought that seeing as how I had made the effort to come along I may as well have a dance or two.“Would either of you ladies like to dance,”. Wanting no repetition of my parents' embarrassing behavior during "orientation weekend" two months before, I loaded my belongings into my brand new used X-Terra (a going-away-to-college gift from my grandfather) and drove the 70 miles to school. At eighteen, with a car, $3000 in cash and credit, and a large bag of marijuana (one of the reasons my summer job savings had been so disappointing) I was on my own and on top of the world. I adapted quickly to campus life. There were a number of kids I. He told me stories about his experience in the Korean War, what he did after as an engineer and into retirement. He was serious and straight forward, a strict man I could tell. I told him that I was in university taking physics and thinking of becoming an engineer myself and looking forward to going to Korea the following year on exchange and internship with Hyundai's heavy-duty industry.We sat down on his couch to enjoy our coffees together and they were much better than any shop could make by. Und anscheinend wusste sie auch, wie aufgeregt, hoffnungsvoll und glücklich ich darüber war.Jedenfalls war es 19 Uhr, und ich war um 20 Uhr mit Julia in einem Club zum Tanzen verabredet. Die ganzen vorherigen Treffen mit Julia hatten nur in Eiscafes und anderen öffentlichen Plätzen stattgefunden, doch nun hatte Julia mich für würdig befunden, mit ihr abends auszugehen, und ich malte mir bereits aus, wie fantastisch Julia in Ausgehklamotten aussehen würde.Da klingelte es an meiner Tür. Ich.