I liked neither.Growing up in a large metro area, I was a big-city girl. Shopping, coffee with my girlfriends, later dinner and clubs. Moving to the c...untryside had been my husband’s idea. He had been offered a good job in the local high school as the principal and the thought of raising our daughter away from the city sounded good. But god, did I miss the shopping, the theatre, museums and everything that came with it.I opened the drawer to the bedside table and looked inside. There were two. I’m not worried about mistress, bride, lover, ‘mi amante’ or, even, ‘I love you.’ Those you’ll use only in private.’ ‘I know! That thought crossed my mind several times and I’m going to have to be very careful. I hadn’t realized how automatically I was calling him ‘dear’ until I watched the recording. I think that the office surroundings will help, but I’d better warn him to be careful. There is one other point that disturbs me a bit. You told meway back at the beginning of this that you. "Uh ... Brian? Could we give you a little thank you kiss? You know. One of those friendly ones but not I'm going to eat your face type?" Dawn asked."I'd like that, Dawn. Thanks," I said. I leaned in and she gave me a very nice and sweet kiss. I turned to Cathy."Uh ... That's okay," Cathy said. "She can have mine." I think she was blushing. Dawn wasted no time bending to kiss me again. We still managed to keep it sweet and not push it. Sora honked out front."See you tomorrow," I said.I survived. "Even more interesting, Sue, is that the Babylonians were using zero before zero existed! They used numbers in tabular form, and where there was a place without a number, where you or I would write a zero, they inserted a mark to do the same thing. Then the Indians started to work out rules for dealing with the concept of zero; but it the name comes from the Arabic term sifr, which means "empty". That got transcribed into Italian by the famous Fibonacci, but somehow he used zephyrum, probably.