.”The song sped up and she swayed her hips and bopped with the music as she talked to him through the lyrics.“Make it on your own, but we don’t ...ave to grow up We can stay forever young Living on my sofa, drinking rum and cola Underneath the rising sun”She changed lip sync to say ‘your sofa’ instead, and feigned a quick drunken wobble to ‘drinking rum and cola’ as she started to smile through her performance. Alessia’s voice and Zedd’s beats guided her through the flirty fun dance she put on. After that she went to Harvard for an MBA. She graduated top in her class at Harvard. Her hard charging personality allowed her to climb the corporate ladder and explode through the glass ceiling. The one thing she missed in her life was a life partner; someone who could share the joy of her triumphs and comfort her in her defeats. Every man she dated wanted to compete with her, not stand beside her.After they threw us out of Valle d'Aosta, Angel took me back to the Tilden Arms. I would not. Which he offered to replace after knocking hers over reaching for his espresso. She assisted him in ordering the drink and they exchanged numbers. After weeks of talking on the phone they wanted to take things to the next level so they decided on a formal date. The place of the date was in the restaurant of a five star hotel on the outskirts of town. They shared a glass of wine and made small talk at the bar waiting for their table. Jackie tried to ease Ben into an evening of pleasure. Ben was. “Just the wind through the leaky windows.” I thought as I jotted, “New windows” on the paper.There were other moaning and skittering sounds as I continued to walk through the house.“Mousetraps, caulking, window coverings…” my list continued.Fortunately, the plumbing worked. I had drunk four bottles of water while in the house and had to go relieve myself. The bathroom across the hall from what was to be my main bedroom did not have a door. After writing, “bathroom door”, along with the.