"Why would she laugh at you? What are you going to ask her? Tell me!" she demanded."I don't want you to get upset when you hear this either, Sandra," ... said, stalling for time, as I tried to compose myself. "I want to ask Astrid to," here I paused to take a deep breath, "to marry me when I get out of school next year and turn nineteen." WHAT?" Sandra shouted in shock, and then started crying, seriously."What's wrong?" I asked, mystified as usual."You don't love me!" Sandra mumbled through her. It didn'tappear to be anything special. The girl on the cover was your normalbuxom blond. He shrugged his shoulders and put the film behind thecounter. At 5:15, Dan strolled into the store. "Yo, Dude," he said, waiving as he walked by. "What's happenin'?" "Same old shit," Dan replied. "Oh, but I got something new in that youmay like." He reached under the counter and pulled out the movie. Daneagerly took it. "Wow!" Jack held the box up. "She's fucking hot!" He turned the box over,looking for a. . but my little family band and our village tribe couldn't rescue them all ... or even a very tiny small percentage of them, unfortunately. This particular Noah's Ark was already getting uncomfortably close to full already, and when we reached that carved in stone four hundred survivor number the ark doors were going to close up tight.That's why I'd given Lori the HR job, the ultimate person with the thankless job and the final power to say 'yes or no', to admitting a post-disaster stranger. Perfect." Another hundred or so shots went by, the strobes in the room continuously blinking out their near blinding light.Finally, after shooting a sequence of shots from the floor, the photographer stood. He checked a list containing reminders on the various shots he wanted to take. Finally, he said, "OK everybody, that's a wrap. We can all go home after we pack up." He went up to the model and thanked her. He also informed her that she could keep the dress. He guessed that there wasn't.