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He grinned "That’s a lot of questions"

I shot hih I was born in Pasadena I lived in Washington State until my early teens, then came back to California to live with my uncle in OC"

The article on him in Wikipedia had provided scant infored way le And it was not lost on me that he hadn’t answered the question about his fah, I really didn’t want to talk about mine, either All two of us

I tried another tack "What does your dad do?"

"He died when I was four He was a professor at Caltech"

"Oh, I’ed "I don’t re we had in common, then We never knew our fathers But at least his father had wanted him Hadn’t handed a wad of cash to his et rid of the problem"

I clearedquestions…What’s your favorite color? What is your astrological sign? Where does the Golden Mountain quest chain start? What’s your favorite book?"

His eyes narroith suspicion but he could notat the corner of his onna tell you in a ruhter

Dinner continued like that I learned that he loved Mexican and Chinese Didn’t care much for Thai I told him about my absolute obsession with the perfect pizza--New York-style Zito’s in Old Towne Orange He told me he’d had the authentic stuff and refused to eat New York-style anywhere outside of New York

He was astonished to discover that I actually preferred the Special Edition version of the original Star Wars trilogy

He shook his head, eyes widened in mock horror "I can’t even--"

"Oh c’rew dead serious "Three words: Greedo shoots first"

I gri to change --"