”“So I guess we have to have sex now?”“I gotta go pee first.”“Better hurry up. Here come the descriptions.”“Hurry? Why?”“Hope you ...an hold it. All action is about to come to a grinding halt for about twenty minutes.”Dan was a middle-aged man weighing 197 pounds and measuring 5’11” when standing up straight, or 5’10.5” when slouched a little. He was a caucasian. He had brown eyes. He liked drinking beer. He watched football on TV on the weekends. He was wearing a white undershirt that was maybe. Damp logs spat and hissed peevishly behind the fireguard, seeming to goad me with recriminations for my past selfishness and weakness. My circuit took me past Margaret's desk, anally neat and tidy as always, yet today somehow different. I looked again and realised that the change was a gaudy Christmas card poking out of its envelope, carelessly tossed on the blotter. I couldn't help reading the name and address and for a moment thought there must have been some mistake, another Margaret with. This is not a perfect plan but my therapist says the he has seen this work on others already.?Mary: ?How do I know that you don’t have cigarettes all over the house??Me: ?I want to quit and to do that would be stupid. I would be wasting my time and money. Please don’t lose it. It’s the only one to that box and it is the only thing of my grandfather that I have left.?Mary put the key in her purse and we all went back to coffee and boring conversation. I was pretending to be interested once again. We'll use a combination of full time staff, job sharing, and part-time working." Quite the modern employer, aren't we? What prompted you to go into the ladies-only gym business, as if I couldn't guess?" I smiled, knowingly."I remember you very well when we were children, Jack. No-one ever got one over you," she put her hand on my forearm, "or your friends." Tears glistered her eyes, unshed. I leant in and gently kissed her. She returned the compliment with an embrace that turned me to stone,.