2% growth year-over-year for the main software packages!”“And 380% growth year-over-year for consulting!”“Yeah, so he’s bringing in $480 ins...ead of $100. Yippee!” she teased. “It’s easy when your number for the previous year is so low!”“In all seriousness, I was happy with the numbers,” I said. “The consulting numbers really blew me away. It’ll be something like 15% of our overall revenue for this year, and that’s really only for half the year. From the way Dave tells it, we’ll have that kind. More 'bad me'! I was pretty mentally fucked up in those days and had my morality switch turned to the 'off' position until I'd been involved in one illegal operation too many. I'd mention that I was also drinking far too much in those days too, but that would just be an excuse.I'd just started to find and reset my moral compass again, a few months before Tori's death and I found the willpower to say 'No'! I'd tried to quit and walk away but Norman took my rejection and 'disloyalty' towards him. “Do you still see her?” she asked, and I told her that Emily was married now, but that we often meet for coffee, or dinner and that we still love each other very much. “I hope Carmen and I can always feel that way, but sometimes I don’t think she feels the same way about me, as I do about her” “Why do you think that?” I asked, and Claire said that their lovemaking could be awkward sometimes, and that Carmen was more reserved, less passionate than she was. Apparently Carmen loved to be in. ” He took a sip of his coffee and allowed me to process that much of the tale. He loved telling stories! He would sound like Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain. He would annunciate his words and defy a listener to do anything less than wait eagerly for the story to develop. “But, before his official trial date,” he continued, ‘several law abiding white citizens’ found him guilty without benefit of a trial. They freed him from his cell and then relieved him of his life by hanging him from a tree that.