From there, after an hour's rest, she boarded an A-2 sent from the U.S.S. United States to pick her up. It was obvious she was an important passenger....The pilot, Lt. Bobby Gates from Kerrville, Texas, was a "nugget" or Navy aviator on his first tour aboard an aircraft carrier. So was his co-pilot and flight school partner, Shelly Schlumburger, a sarcastic brunette from Amsterdam Avenue in Brooklyn. Both knew better than to pry into the affairs of the young, attractive female officer. All they. He sat back at his desk with the envelope in hand andfor a time just stared at it. The short period of time since he hadsigned the original seemed like a lifetime back at the moment. As he satmotionless, he was trying to think through everything that had led to himsigning it. He had sat in the office after she had left him alone andtried to calm himself down. Reading the first contract had been simpleenough, it wasn't much different to the one he signed for his currentposition, just requisite. Let's just go out and have a good time tonight and not try to figure anything out. If we do strike a chord, and hit it off, fine. If not, no one is hurt, OK?" Joel said as he extended his hand."But, as a couple," she hesitated before shaking, " we will try to make it without others involved until we decide where this is going, whether its one date or a 100?"Ellaynne reached out and shook his hand and then remarked, "We better get going to make one of the early movies. How about the Thomas Crown. Hence why we have our arguments, he ends up saying something that hurts my feelings and then I go ‘gung-ho-all-out-woman’ on him is what he calls it. Then I slam my door and come out two hours later and everything is usually okay. After those fights, we act like nothing happened and continue our daily lives. But this time, I sat there listening, and I felt everything had changed. That song… “Pachelbel’s Canon,” was mother’s favorite tune. When she was still with us, she had the song playing.