On our first date we talked for maybe three hours. She wasn't afraid of interrupting my canned first-date speeches, which I didn't mind one bit. I sho...ed off how cultured I was, considering I was a scientist, and she at least pretended to be impressed. I didn't understand much of her thesis topic—something about Ariosto's influence on Goethe—but I kept my mouth shut. I kept my discussion of organic conductors to five minutes. She didn't look bored and even asked an intelligent. Tim, it's the only thing I could think of that... You've been my best friend my whole life. I want you to take it. It's important to me that you do."I sniffed, and gave him a hug, resisting the urge to give him a peck on the cheek and stuff while in front of his parents. It took several minutes before we both could stop sniffling. Even Suzi was a little snifflely as she explained to our parents that Joey's dead sister had given it to him, the first of many in his baseball card collection.Suzi. For the briefest second, the shapely young wife was sorely tempted to march right into the middle of Henry's precious news program and tell him how very wrong he was about what she had done that afternoon, tell him about her new job and the envelope that was in her purse. But guilt and fear held her back. She was afraid that once she began to tell the story of her meeting with Maxwell Alexander, she might accidentally let slip some incriminating detail, alerting him to the fact that his. It’s very formal.”“Good to know. I asked if Kimi could go. I have not asked her yet. And won’t if you don’t approve.”“It’s okay to ask Kimi if she would like to go. Just so you know, SU will not pay you for any days you are gone.”“Would that SU would pay as even half as much as those rich guys are paying.”“Z, it would be great if I could take off and get $300 or $500 for a half day’s work. If SU paid us as much we would have to raise our rates so much that only those rich dudes could.