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"Did you know that Neil played football for Stanford? And that he alanted to go into sports broadcasting?" she offered,her ood to know Did you know Ryan sold soram to Hewlett Packard when he was just twenty-three? And that he put all theEnglish to kids in Thailand?" Sophia provided next

"That’s very good to knoell Did you know that Simon doesn’t consider his lady friends a ‘harem,’ and Jillian at one point actually told hi?"

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"Did you know that Neil loves to windsurf? And he has tickets to the syoing with you, Sophia, he suggested we double"

"M Ryan Who, by the way, also loves to windsurf They all do--they surf in the bay whenever they can And I can also report that he now runs a charity that puts computers and educational materials into inner city schools all over California It’s called--" Sophia began

"No Child Left Offline?" Mimi quickly finished

Sophia nodded

"I love that charity! I give to that organization every year And Ryan is the one who runs it? Wow…ss

Quiet descended while we chewed again, and I tried to co else to say about Siaware of my nocturnal verbal emissions

"Um, Simon has Too Short on his iPod," I muood

"Music is i who had his own album out?" Mimi asked

"No, no He didn’t have an albu to sell his own CDs out of the back of his car Not the saer too--Coffee House Joe, remember him?" Sophia snorted into her breakfast

"Yes, he was about fifteen years too late for the flannel, but he got an A for angst And wasback

"When is this self-i to be over?" Mi anyone"

"Please, who are you kidding?" Sophia snorted again

"You need a tissue over there, Miss Piggy? Seriously, there have been too many Coffee House Joes and Machine Gun Corys I’ anyanysoht as well join her," I added, trying so their eyes

They had their Os, and now they had new boys I didn’t expect anyone to joinsabbatical But now their faces just looked so sad I needed to turn this back to theuys, huh? Any kisses at the door? Any spit swapping?" I asked, shed

"Oooh, I bet he’s a good kisser Did he wrap you up tight and run his hands up and down your back? He has great hands Did you notice his hands? Damn fine hands," Sophia ralance and waited for her to co, she blushed a little

"What? I noticed his hands? They’re huge How could you not?" she stagled and turned reat hands?"

It was Mimi’s turn to blush "Actually, he was very sweet Just a little peck on the lips and a nice hug at iant senius charitable with his goodnight kiss?" I giggled

"Uht kiss," she replied, licking syrup off the back of her hand She didn’t seem to notice the way Miht she’d received, but I did

"So, you escaped last night unscathed, I take it?" Mi the sore tongue, so I chose to stick with juice

"I did We cahborly"

"What exactly does that mean?" she asked

"That means he’ll try to curtail his activities to earlier in the evening, and I’ll try to beabout his sex life, as lively as it is," I answered, digging into my purse for soain?"

"You wish One week That’s how long I give this truce You can’t keep your opinions to yourself, and he can’t keep that Giggler quiet One week," she said again as Miht and early, Jillian ca in to my office

"Knock knock," she called She was the picture of casual chic: hair swept back into a loose bun, little black dress on her little tan body, legs that went on forin red pumps Pumps that would probably constitute almost a week’s pay for me She was my mentor in every way, and I made a mental note to make sure I someday obtained the quiet confidence she carried with her

She smiled when she saw the neers in the vase on e tulips, three dozen

"Morning! Did you see that the Nicholsons have added a home theater? I knew they’d come around" I smiled as I sat back in my chair Jillian settled herself in the chair across fro over for dinner tonight We’re hoping to finalize the plans for the new closet syste She wants to add carpet now" I shook ue had alan to wonder if I had a Cheerio stuck to lass coive me a deal on the pieces I ordered for the bathroo to be beautiful I think we’ll definitely want to use thehed and leaned forith a cat-that-ate-the-canary-and-went-back-for-the-feathers-to-play-with grin

"Jillian, did you have dental work done thisto show me your new dentures?" I asked, and she finally flinched

"As if I would ever need dentures, pffft No, I’hbor, Mr Parker Or should I say Si back in her chair and giving me a look that said I would not be allowed to leaveshe wanted to know

"Her Where to start? First of all, you can’t tell me you didn’t know he lived next door How the hell could you have lived there as long as you did and not knoas the one thu back at her with my best detective sneer