The maitre `d was a fabulous tall stud, with almost too much good looks on him. Evidently, Allie had been scoping him out for some time already, and w...s moving in for the kill. Sure enough, she came back to the table and announced that "Alex" was coming home with us. "He likes boys too!" She reassured me. "And he wants to know where you got that suit." I like him already! Allie rode with Alex, as we followed in our car. We could see her touching and hugging him as we rode. When we arrived. About that email..." Les. Please. I said it's behind me. Please put it behind you, too." I can't get it behind me. I feel like such an idiot, and I've never been so embarrassed in my life. How can you put it behind you?" That? That was nothing. You can't change the past, Les. It's behind you. You can learn from it ... but why let it control you?" That sounds l ike a good philosophy," he remarked."I have lots of practice putting things behind me." What do you mean?" I told you about my dad going. I came to the States at the start of my junior year because my folks wanted me to go to college here." So you're living away from them all this time?" Tom asked."Um, well, they died in a bombing a month before I came here. I don't have any siblings, either." Oh!" the four guests exclaimed and offered their sympathies.He briefly explained about his parents' loss in the terrorist attack and finished, "Yeah, it was such a shock, obviously, and I terribly miss them still ... Ayame? Are you crying?". She had been, no doubt, taught much of her life all of the usual Lost Cause arguments, that the South seceded because of tariffs, that it left over too much centralized government, that Lincoln was insincere about his opposition to slavery (due to a misunderstanding about his earlier statements regarding the purpose of the war), and that the South would have ultimately freed its slaves after victory. This was typical for much of the Southern revisionist viewpoint and interpretation of the Civil.