Jill and I chose him as a roommatefor several reasons. He wasn't popular enough around school to startspreading gossip about our condition. Since he...was socially awkwardhimself, it wasn't likely he would notice our weirdness. We were bothvery certain he was gay, and Jill didn't find him attractive at all.He also stayed in his room a lot of the time. He was the perfectroommate."Good first day," I said. "Oh, if you knock on my door and I don'topen it immediately, it's because I'm a heavy. --Maybe we were supposed to all jump up and holler "No! No!"But nobody hollered. Facts were facts."They're whipping us, and that shouldn't surprise anybody, because they've won 120 games this year..." One hundred twenty?" I thought. Oh -- yeah. --He's counting the post-season, right up until last night."I haven't looked it up," Paul continued, "but if they beat us again, it'll be 121 wins, and I'm pretty sure that nobody's ever won 121 games in one season before. I mean, we've only been doing. I got back up stairs and my step mom was in the kitchen, so I went in there to see if she needed any help. When I walked into the kitchen my eyes about popped out of my head. I could not believe my step mom was wearing this sexy little baby doll nightie. It was black with a little white lace trim on it. It was all but see through. Her makeup was still on and she had a sexy little necklace and earrings on, if she would have had on a pair of black heels it would have looked like she walked right. It did mean that my doggedness made me progress more quickly. I did puzzles, I walked and walked on my crutches and tried to walk without them too early, with disastrous results. I don’t think I was nice to know. One thing I took to immediately was the computer they got me. To help my short-term memory, I wrote everything that I needed to remember into my computer diary. There were emerging memories of childhood. For instance it came to me out of the blue that I lived in the Manchester area,.