The rest of my memories don’t mesh with the present.’ ‘I had to do it,’ he said. Then, by some combination of adrenaline, confrontation, guilt...and fatigue, he found the strength to say the speech he had prepared in his moments of wakefulness. ‘I was always alone and couldn’t do anything about it. Trying not to be alone always punished me with anxiety and punished someone else with boredom. I ended up trying to freeze my heart, to make myself not need others. It almost worked until I met you. I. And before I could ask who she is, she recited,“I’m Nobody! Who are you?Are you – Nobody – too?”And I completed,Then there’s a pair of us!Don’t tell! They’d advertise – you know.We completed together, Emily Dickinson’s rest of lines,How dreary – to be – Somebody!How public – like a Frog –To tell one’s name – the livelong June –To an admiring Bog!So exchange of name was ruled out but she did blurted that she is a Mumbai girl, did schooling from Sofia , went out to US, Masters from Wharton,. I wanted to paddle his ass ‘til he howled.”Sondra smiled sympathetically. “Still makes you angry, doesn’t it?”“It sure does. I wish he was here right now. We’d show them a thing or two, wouldn’t we?”“You bet! Now hold that thought. Stay pissed off.” With that, Sondra jumped up and sprinted for her horse.Surprised, Jenna followed her. Sondra kicked her horse in the haunches and her stallion took off at a canter, followed by the mare. At this faster pace, Jenna still felt in control and the speed. I know that was true of Jennifer, of me, and even of Kara. Hell, Kathy’s in love with you. She always has been. But that one you knew.”I sighed, “Yeah, but it’s different with her. I love her dearly and I know she loves me, but we missed our chance back in Junior High and it never really clicked after that.”“And yet, like me, she’d drop everything if you wanted to marry her.”“What the hell is it about me that makes so damn many girls want to marry me? I even got that from Tanya, even though.