..if youwant to do it okay but if not that's okay too," Linda finished."It certainly looks real enough but when she uses it won't her partnerknow that...it is a fake. After all it won't radiate heat like the realthing and you know as well as I do that when a man comes we know it.Won't that be a dead give away?" Terri questioned."Not if you make sure she uses a condom. That should remove any doubts awoman may have. It would reduce the feeling of heat and she won't beexpecting to feel him. My eyes followed her as she walked away until Kathy turned my face toward hers with her hand and asked, ‘Hey, remember me darling?’ then her eyes searched mine with her brow wrinkled a little, ‘Do you know that girl Michael? She looks like that one from the dance that time.’ ‘Yeah, she is the little sister of a girl I dated in high school … she hates me!’ ‘Oh!’ Kathy said brightly, giving me a smile that said she wanted to know more. ‘She is a brat, and I got so sick of her act one time. So, we keep saying it, sometimes because we want to convince ourselves that it’s true, that it’s already true. But there’s another reason: we want to MAKE it true. We keep saying things like ‘liberty and justice for all’ and ‘equal justice under law’ so we don’t forget what we’re trying to get to. Am, am I making any sense?”“I ... guess.” Paul wasn’t sure it did make sense, though. “I mean, not really. Oh! like when I had to run that race, and I kept on saying ‘I’m a... ‘ I mean, kept saying it. “That’s the one thing that gave me real pause about this deal. But I didn’t see any real options and Jess and I talked about it. If her shifts don’t allow for me to walk with her, she’ll drive. It’s not ideal, but unless someone can magically make our current building larger or conjure up affordable space in Hyde Park, there isn’t much I can do.”“Anything else we need to talk about before we have Kimmy get things rolling with Phelan-Brown?” I asked.Everyone shook their heads, so I told Kimmy to.