"I do have to confess it, honey, you ... you're the most promising manI've ever ...! You may well be the one person I've always wanted andneeded and ...reamed about, everything I'll ever want. You're right, weshould be getting serious. Yes. So we'll start by living together,nothing assumed, no commitments, and we'll see. I hope so. Yes!Bring your stuff here and move in with me and we'll see. Today!"My heart had bounded sky high! When the idea first came to me ofproposing that we live. "Well done, Solon," the hulk said. The man's broad smile turned to the woman.Without preamble, she said, "Taylor tells me you are full of surprises." The officer seemed surprised to see my scars from old wounds on my chest and shoulder. She surveyed my sweaty body like a drill instructor, seeing what she had to work with.The hulking Taylor interjected, "This is Lt. Ulla Foth, chief of security for the ship."I felt a sense of exhilaration pass through me, since the praise was from the same woman. I guess there’s one critical element of their dissuasion that I kept leaving out: Every so often I still slept with her. When she started introducing me as her boyfriend though, I realized that I’d have to do something more drastic to end things. Over the holidays I resolved that I’d have to let her know that we were breaking up. I’d never really broken up with anyone before. I felt bad about having to it, but I was also a little annoyed to be put in this position by a girl who I never really. Our friendship started purely sexual, but over the months we found that we had so much more in common. Of course the sexual aspect of our relationship was never far below the surface. Ann was the most uninhibited person I've ever encountered; so totally compatible with me. There was no fantasy we hadn't shared with each other; there was nothing we felt we needed to keep secret. We also agreed that if we were ever together, we'd begin exploring many of them.Six months after "meeting," I.