"I - I've been talking with your people, and I know that you expect women to be doing their damndest to get pregnant about now. I understand that, and...have even passed it on to the people who came with me. I imagine most of them are somewhere out there fucking like bunnies."My mouth opened, but her hand stopped me again."My problem is that, well, I guess I need to do my part, too, but, well, you see, um, all of my lovers have been other women..."I had guessed we might run up against that little. "She smiled tentatively. I couldn't tell if she was frightened of me or she was respecting what I had accomplished. It didn't matter. I was nearly through and I wanted to go, but I didn't want to hurt her any more."What do you really want, Molly? I know you're lonely, and to tell the truth, so am I. But I'm not going back to where I was ... ever. I'm the new Jack Tompkins, and I'm going to stay the new Jack Tompkins." I was worried that I might have overstated my case, but I left it to Molly to. I mean, magic pendants? Who'd have thought thingslike that really existed?" I certainly didn't," said Susan, "not until I found myself in anotherbody for the first time." That evil bastard!" I said, feeling my anger at him well up again, "whenI think of what he put you through I could kill him." Which is why I wouldn't let you come to Lake View nursing home with me." Probably the wise thing to do," I grudgingly admitted. "When Jill toldus he'd given you power of attorney, making you his legal. She wanted him, but not in anyway he had ever considered, of that she had little doubt. "Do you recall Paul, the day we first met here some months ago?" Shepaused waiting for him to nod."Yes of course I do. I fell instantly in love and have been hoping to winyou ever since." "Ah yes, such a gentle and polite pursuit. You really are a lovelyperson." She smiled warmly. "You asked what I was drawing on my pad and Iclosed it before you could see. I said I would show you when I thoughtyou might.