”“Well, I can only give you my best of advice: cut out the drinking.”“Thanks, I’ll keep that in mind.”“Cheer up, will ya. You’re makin... me nervous.”“Alan, we’ve been good friends for how long? Three, four, five years?”“Yeah, so?”“I’m thinking about ... I’m thinking quite strongly about selling the business and retiring somewhere.”“You’re a little too young to be retiring. Besides, didn’t you just come back from a vacation?”“And quite a vacation it was. I went with my wife, and we visited the. A week and a half into my recovery period, and I was starting to go stir crazy just laying here.The girls had come in to keep me company, and I’d spent a very strange couple of days with Mrs. Polaski as she had me take one test after another. Our original schedule called for us to be tested over a week and a half, with the tests spread out to one each day. I’m not sure if it was some sick game of hers, or she just wanted to see how far she could push my abilities.She didn’t actually know about. " Changing the subject, she asked, "Can I see him?"The Major would no doubt have been scandalized; I had the AI put him up naked and erect. "How come he isn't, like, twenty or something?" Myra asked."He's a military man -- has been all his adult life -- and he's in a position of authority," I told her, paraphrasing what he'd once told me. "The insides are younger than the exterior, but he looks older and wiser and that's a comfort to some people and helps him cement his authority -- not that he. " You're on," smiled Gary. No matter how good Jane had been, he was sure that he'd be able to resist this girl who was obviously only a teenager. Ken hadn't said how old she was, just that she was in college, but no way she could be over eighteen. Of course, he had an advantage he hadn't mentioned to Ken; he'd had sex with Annette just before they got here, so his need wouldn't be all that urgent."Arianwen," said Ken sharply, "Please come over here."She recognized the tone in his voice and.