Colette sat down across the table, sipped her coffee while patiently waiting for her guest to settle down.Lifting her head Abby dabbed at her eyes wit... a hanky, blew her nose, and said, “I’m sorry Colette. You must think I’m a complete nutcase.”“I don’t think that at all Abby. What I think is that your body clock is all out of whack, you’ve traveled far away from home—from what Arthur says for the first time—you’re in a strange country, and you are overwhelmed with happiness with being together. “Well,” began Ralph “I just shot up some heroin a couple minutes ago, so I really couldn’t eat it now. I’m really hungry. Why don’t you send it over about 15 minutes ago.” Ralph hung up the phone and looked at the half eaten sausage mushroom and extra cheese pizza in front of him. He was full and could still taste the sausage and tomato sauce. Ralph realized he hadn’t yet injected the heroin. He was too full to shoot heroin after eating half of a sausage mushroom and extra cheese pizza. . "As Cate would say, your explanation raises more questions than it answers," Gini said. "It may be plausible, but it doesn't sound likely. I think it's simpler than that; more likely a simple jump. As much of a crapshoot as it is, maybe you can only make the jump if there's already a body available for you to jump to." Still, the waiting room makes a certain sense," Becky suggested. "That may be why Alex's cohorts are all different ages. They may have had to wait for available but unclaimed. I had been permissive for her to try though.She had chosen not to date new men.After we moved out of our first small apartment she had quit seeing Jack Harris and Jack Hazlet.She had admitted though that when Jimmy called she could not refuse him.I told Fay that she had not been able to resist going off with him the last time she had seen him.She had gotten in the car with him even though she knew that Jimmy would force her to do what ever he wanted her to do.I told Fay about my meeting Jimmy.