What the heck. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, Idiot, she told herself. You don't want to sit around the apartment feeling sorry for yourself o... Christmas. You don't even have a date for New Year's. And you want a man to kiss you at midnight? Crushing her doubts, she thought, Screw it. For some reason, they want a guest for the holidays. I'm game; I'm going. Damn the torpedoes. Full speed ahead. Then after a second, Enough clichés, she told herself with a giggle that caused the other. .. I don't enjoy computers. Mom can we just cool it with the career talk. I know you don't approve of my job." What's there not to approve of, David. I just think you could make more money as a trash collector than as an independent businessman. Don't you, honey?"My father usually stayed out of these conversations. He too favored Helen, my sister, over me, but at least he had the decency to not rub it in my face. "Honey, I think we need to cut the turkey now..." Oh the turkey! Of course!. " You're saying you have a female soul?" Yes. That's it exactly." How platonic." Huh?" You know, Plato, the Academy, the Grove of Academe."Timothy looked at Hannah as though she'd lapsed into Farsi. He had noidea what she was talking about. He glanced at me for assistance."Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher," I said. "He believed that weall have immortal souls imprisoned in corrupt bodies and that our chieflabor on earth should be the cleansing liberation of our souls. He alsobelieved that. That's not what I want or what I'm looking for in my first lover. I want a man who I care for, and who cares about me – I thought maybe an older man"...She regripped my hands looking into my eyes again, I felt something very deep, and it wasn't the expectation of sex, it was more – a benevolence, a warmth that washed across my heart."Number 355!" I'll get it," we both said at the same time, getting up together and getting the food. We brought it back and started to eat."Jamison, I don't know if.