If what you've showed me has meaning, then I am not destroying myself. I'm acting out of love." Why now?" Why not? If I had something specific that ne...ded to happen within the next year, I'd wait. If you want to do something with me, let's do that."She sighed. "Do you know how it's done? Do you know what this will be for you?" No." Well, perhaps that at least will turn you away." She doubted it: Badger was strong enough to make the sacrifice out of love.She lay with him face-to-face. She. “Lucky bastard,” he thought, thinking of what the young man might be planning for when he took her home later.“Lucky fellow,” he said, wryly.“What?” she retorted, looking over at the bar, “no, not him, Sarah.”She gestured towards the girl.“Then I’ll buy you both a drink,” he said and set off towards the bar.“I’m Jon,” he said, “short for Jonathan, but most people call me Sweeney.”“Why Sweeney?” she asked.“My last name’s Todd, and I’m a medical student.”“Karen Kaliszewski,” she said, pronouncing. She tells me about herself, how she was happily married for 45 years, to still be a widow at only 60, how her two sons live on another island, how poverty and tourism have changed life here and how hard she finds it miss out on intimacy and contact. She tells about her husband and how great he was to her, that he was her only lover, about all her relatives having moved away. I pour a second glass for both of us and for the first time touch her, stroking her hair, saying that I understand how. “ Sally, get the door please, would you and bring our guests to the meeting table?” Guests?! Sally’s mind went into overtime she had just been expecting Paul! She opened the door and there was Paul smiling ear to ear “Sally, wow! So good to see you again and so much of you ( laughter) Please let me introduce my two colleagues Pete and Saul” Sally now bright red in the face shook hands with both of them, Pete was a tall athletic man in his 50s and Saul was shorter but heavy build black guy she.