"Well I will have to wish you luck. A Vice President at AT&T just phoned. He offered three and a half million and said that was the best we could expe...t. I told him that their subsidiary here in Canada would offer more than that. He was at a loss. He thought the sum he offered would buy the patent outright. It may be a long time coming but we'll get a lot more." I agree with you John. Besides three and a half is hard to divide by two."The next part of the trip was a pleasure. It was one. After a few minutes I strike up a conversation with the k**. This isn’t out of the ordinary for me, as Beth says, “troy, will just walk up and start talking to anyone, he doesn’t care he just likes to talk.” It is true, I figure if I am going to be sitting at a table with 8 – 9 other people all day long I might as well talk to them. As the day passes and I am talking to Jay , previously know as ‘young black k**’, Beth comes in from outside, grabs a chair and sits behind me to watch me play for. Darren helped her out of the convertible and carrying a picnic basket in one hand, he led her down a trail into the woods. They strolled side by side holding hands down the path until it emerged from the trees and opened into a wide meadow with lush green grass.Darren opened the blanket he had carried from the car underneath a towering elm tree. He placed the picnic basket in the center.Stephanie sat on one side of the basket and watched as Darren opened a bottle of white wine and poured two. It’s a wooden deck that Bobby’s father built last summer. It steps down into three progressively lower sections, the lowest is more like a patio, just a few inches off the ground. Kevin bends me over the middle section, that is a little higher than waist level to me. He hops up onto the deck, still pulling my hair. My hands are bound, so I can’t climb up, all I can do is bend at the waist and let him drag me. My whole body weight being pulled up by my hair hurts, my feel leave the ground and my.