He asked me if I had a boyfriend and I told him that I normally didn’t have a boyfriend, but there was an interesting guy I hoped to see when I got ...ack home. He asked me if I ever dated older men and I told him that back home I did from time to time.Jim bought me another beer and we continued to talk. He asked if I wanted a shot and I passed. At this point, Jim and Mike had each done about 4 shots and 4 beers. Jim had been divorced for a long time and had a couple of kids who he rarely. On each canvas, men and women lay broken against the pavement, floated face down in the river, burned up in flames, sprawled in their beds, on park benches, in alleys, or amidst treasured possessions. Many were naked. All had been suicides of a sort.It's amazing what you can get away with if you pay your taxes in this day and age. Constance and I weren't some bogy man show. We were a licensed photography studio. Our buyers believed we were perverted geniuses, no doubt — skilled beyond measure. "Yes?"Ned swallowed. "Uh..." Something wrong?" Uh..." Ned, we'll both be late for class. What..." Wouldyagooutwithme?"Cassie blinked. "What?" she asked in a tiny voice.Ned paused for a long moment, then finally said, "Um, o-okay, never mind, I understand..." I'd love to."Ned fell silent again.Cassie slowly smiled. "I'd love to," she repeated in a soft voice."Okay. Um ... okay. Great. Tonight, then?" I have to go with my parents to some formal function tonight, but I'm free tomorrow." Ah, cool.. I had an idea to try, but not one that lent itself to immediate action, so I shelved that ruminating and turned my attention to the information that Lauren had collected on Dr. Yehuda ben Ami. He was apparently a tenured professor of physics and cosmology at UC Berkeley who held Bachelor degrees in mathematics and physics from Cornell and a Ph.D. in physics from MIT. He had been involved in the design and launch of NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer satellite, a project intended to look for.