"Yeah," he laughed, I guess I do. By the way..." Kim," she lied. "My name's Kim." Darius had said nothing about having to use her real name."Well, Kim... you do know that to earn the fifty bucks, you'll have to more than just strip. You'll have to give them a little something extra."She couldn't look him in the eye."Yes, I know," she replied, almost inaudibly.As she entered the so-called dressing room, seventeen sets of eyes were cast her way. The other women ranged in age from a scrawny teenager. They always wore weird old-fashioned clothes (not in a cool retro way, either), and said things like 'awesome-sauce!' and 'cool-beans!' They seemed super-enthusiastic about everything, as if every sentence they uttered should conclude with a minimum of three exclamation marks!!! And they were always saying things in class, answering all the professor's questions, and acting like they knew everything. In short, they were super-annoying nerds.And now I was stuck with them. Alanna was kind of. Thursday night, after a day of moving in, Les and Phoebe just walk across the drive to join the group for dinner.Afterward, they all troop back to Les’s to have a tour. Sam is embarrassed at all the praise Les is bestowing on him as they enter each room. She is pointing out all the details of the work Sam and his crew have done.At the end of the tour, she promises Sam that things will be in place by Monday to take final pictures of the remodeling for his webpage as he has asked. Sam has. On August 14 a television ad ran, from an outfit calling itself the ‘Swift Boat Veterans For Truth’, claiming that John Kerry was dishonest and lied about his service in the Navy, and hadn’t been fit to command a ‘Swift Boat’, one of the small river patrol craft in Viet Nam, and was unfit to command as the President. It was run in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida, all states with a close race. The group claimed that they had served with Kerry, on his boat, in combat, and that he had never.