"Do you feel any better?" I asked Randy."I feel really good right now. Thanks for the massage." He said as he smiled at me."You're very welcome." I sa...d to him."Can I ask you something?" Randy said to me."Sure." I replied."Do you always hide your body in yoga clothes?" He asked me."I wear my black yoga pants pretty much wherever I go, even yoga classes. Sometimes, I even sleep in them. I'm mostly at home when I'm not giving massages." I replied honestly."I bet you have a lovely figure. They confirmed plans to meet for brunch the next morning before heading back home. Rose and Kathy mingled a bit more, then a couple of the other female runners came over and invited them to another party. “It will be a bit quieter than this one and I think both of you will really enjoy yourselves.” After discussing it for a few minutes, they decided to go. The four of them grabbed a cab to another hotel about two miles away. After taking the elevator to the top floor, they went to a private. It never came within sight, but it made me nervous.“I love you,” I said when she had come. She looked at her watch.“I love you, too, but I’m late. And I have to do the lunch dishes before I set the dinner table.” She dressed and got her bike.“Well, it’s my fault.” She said something about not really, but I cut through her. “I can’t cook, but I’m an expert dishwasher. Let me do yours.” What I really would rather have done was to teach Tuck how, but it wasn’t my business. I was in the kitchen. This sperm had all been rendered over to the NIP and used to attempt in vitro fertilization. So far, less than one in a hundred attempts had resulted in a fertilized egg and those successes failed to attach to the host mother’s uterine wall.There was some justification for Mangeler’s disdain for the NIP. Dr. Pius, in charge of insemination, was so convinced of the sanctity of life that he considered every sperm and every egg to be a human being. His focus was on using as few sperm as possible.