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Jordan looked up frolower at his father Wow, these two really could not stand each other What was the story there?

"So what do you do, Mr Fawkes?" I asked to veer clear of whatever collision course those tere on

"It’s Dr Fawkes I’ at Cal Poly, and I run a consulting fir machine’ comment he’d made I took a breath and released it

"Where did you attend school, April?" Jordan’s raduated froraduate school" We fell into silence again and I picked at my chocolate cake It was delicious but overly rich, and I’d had my fill of it after the first few bites "So, uh…youat the TED conference"

All of their heads shot up, faces turned to thethe next bite of cake to hisat TED?" his mother asked first "When?"

He took a deep breath, let it out and then shot me a look that could kill

"In a feeeks," I said when Jordan did not supply the answer I was shocked that they didn’t know

Hannah cleared her throat "That’s awesome, bro You’ll be like, fa on?"

"How to be a shallow, ine," said his dad

"Actually, how to live your life singularly to spite your own parent," Jordan inserted without pause

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"Will we be able to watch the speech?" his mom asked as if neither had spoken

When Jordan didn’t answer, I did "It live streaht delay, I think You’ll be able to see it the day he delivers it I’ht you were all wrapped up in your Wall Street rab," said his dad with a sardonic sh"