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"No, I didn’t"

"Are you saying I’et It’s obvious, you know Goes without saying"

"But you could say it"

"I could"

Their waitress returned with their drinks and Myrna’s salad While Brian sipped his beer, he watched her methodical y e of her plate

"I thought you ht I’d skip the onions so I could make out with the sexiesthirinned at her coo, but when Myrna did it, it made him happy She had such an unusual effect on hiht it He was ready for this and hoped she’d co these powerful e he wanted to do was scare her away

"You want it?" She speared a tomato with her fork and offered it to hietables without dressing

She dipped the little to and held it out to hi her devour her salad

"So how much data do you think you need to enter into your colanced up at him, her fork halfway to herhowto take "Just curious"

"Let’s see I’ve been doing about twenty interviews a night, each with forty-two questions And there have been eight concerts, so that’s about 6,500 pieces of data I need to enter Give or take"

"That’s a lot!" he sputtered "You have to enter al that stuff by hand?"

"Wel , yeah I don’t have an assistant in hed "It’s not the data entry that’s hard, anyway It’s the statistical analysis and reporting the results in journal articles that takes so long"

"You’re going to be real y busy, aren’t you?"

"I tried to explain that to you earlier You seeo to LA with you because I don’t want to spend tied Was he that easy to read?

"I don’t want to go to LA with you because I want to spend too much time with you"

When he tried to respond, she popped another tomato in hisal pouty"

He sed "I don’t pout What if you get done with al your work early? Wil you coet your heart set on it"

"You don’t want to meet my parents?"

She paled "Your parents?"

"You realize who uitar riffs and al "

"Uh" She paused "I don’t know any other guitarists with the last nae naive you three guesses"

Her brow furroith concentration "Is he as good as you are?"