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Careful not to let his doubts show, Jack stood up to shake hands with Allen and the other board an to tick

In silence Jack and his two partners took the elevator down from the twentieth floor to the lobby None of thelass doors and onto the sidewalk Ten in thewas a busy time of day in San Francisco’s financial district, and they had to speak loudly to be heard over the noise of the traffic and the suited businessive the Pocket Planner sex appeal?" Howie asked, clearly frustrated

"If we could have gotten it out two years ago, before the economy started to tank, the retailers would have taken it on without blinking" Larry’s enius, but more than once he’d reminded Jack of Eeyore, the morose donkey from the children’s books hisboy "But now? It will take a miracle to convince them to stock it"

Hoas the realist Larry was the pessiy that kept their inventive and brilliantto grab a cup of coffee and start brainstorht now, not down ht away to focus on the proble their device "sexy," not only for men but for women, too

Of all the proble about sex hadn’t been one of thereat appreciation for women He liked to watch them move, liked to feel them soft and warm beneath him and enjoyed the way theirhad always played second fiddle to his work, so had women and sex

Larry sighed as they got off the trolley and rounded the corner into Union Square, which was fully decorated with lights in every storeand huge green wreaths hanging from the lampposts "If we can’t convince the retailers to carry our product this Christ too old to keep living on the edge of coestured toward the center of Union Square, where there was a portable trailer on the corner Several large lighting rigs had been set up around the area to shine down on the snow that had been brought in for the scene Flakes of fresh snow fell froine having the funds to put soether to sell our invention"

Their usual coffee place was just ahead but, instead of heading inside, Jack detoured toward the crosswalk

"Where are you going?" Howie asked

"To take a closer look"

Larry was right They’d need a miracle in the next twenty-four hours to keep their dream alive Jack kneouldn’t be the end of the world if they didn’tfor one of the high-tech companies in Silicon Valley But he’d never wanted to work for anyone else And just as this snowy scene in the middle of San Francisco had been some director’s impossible vision, Jack wanted to see his own impossible vision co quickly toward the Union Square set He didn’t know exactly what he was going to learn by watching the fil of a movie or commercial It was just that today he needed to witness fantasy beco up the collars of their suit jackets, and shoving their hands deep into their pockets to try to keep war Bay breeze that whipped between the tall buildings, the three men crossed at a busy corner They had just stepped up onto the sidehen the door to the trailer opened

And the most beautiful woman in the world stepped out

Jack stopped so suddenly that Howie and Larry both barreled hard into his back and a car rounding the corner nearly knocked theht dark brown hairto a perfect hourglass figure and swirled seductively around an incredible pair of legs, ers were tipped with nails painted red toup into a smile

The woman on the Union Square set wasn’t only the most beautiful woman Jack had ever seen, she was also the hts the photographer began taking pictures of her Though Jack didn’t knohat it was she was selling, he wanted it anyway

And her

He wanted her, too

"My girlfriend is never going to believe it when I tell her I saw Mary Ferrer live and in the flesh" Howie’s expression was starstruck

Larry’s eyebroent up "You know her naazines Layla has lying around in the living room Hard to believe it, but Mary Ferrer is actually better looking in person"

Men, wo in the middle of don San Francisco to watch the beautiful hed for the ca too sweet

A little girl broke free from her mother’s hand and barreled onto the set with a squeal of joy The h, and the two of them chatted cheerfully until her hter back Jack couldn’t hear what they were saying, but he could see that Mary aving away the woht