”“Win the lottery and Harry could go away,” she laughed as she went out the door.“Do what?” I almost shouted as I hurried to catch up.“I'm...driving,” she said as she pointed me to the passenger side.“Yes, ma'am.”“You better be your best Harriet tonight,” Nancy said.“I'll do my best,” I replied, as she backed out of the driveway.“Joan and Mark have gone all out to make this a very special night,” she went on.“I will, I promise,” I assured her. “Whatever it takes.”“Also remember, no curtsies. Not an invasion by the Russians, North Koreans or even Al Qaeda. Instead we have an alien invasion by a fleet of ships, all equipped with advanced technology that make ours look like tinker toys." Wait, are you serious?" Representative Moore from Wyoming asked, sitting back and regarding the president and his people, looking for any evidence he was trying to pull a fast one."Abso-fucking-lutely," the president answered, throwing away all sense of decorum. "Samuel, play the video we confiscated. How much was because of her plea of tiredness and how much because she openly loved being up high, I’ll leave you to guess.‘Would you like a drink?’ Donna asked as we got back, giving me a real shock. This was the first time that she had spoken to me other than in answer to a direct question.‘I’d love a cup of coffee, if that’s all right,’ I answered politely.‘I’ve only got the cheap stuff,’ she said with her head bowed once more, ‘It’s all that I can afford, sorry.’‘Nothing to be sorry about,. ” “Back to square one,” I said. “Yes, but the idea wouldn’t go away,” Harold said, “and after a lot of failures with time wasters, we made contact in a chat room with a couple who seemed like us. And that’s how it turned out when we met, and that’s how we’ve gone on ever since.” “But even now,” added Charmian, “it’s only an occasional thing - when the mood takes us, really. There are two or three couples we’ve been back to, but sometimes we meet people who are all right at the time but no more.