Some of those innovators were enslaved for trademark infringement as a result." That's monstrous!" Amanda exclaimed. "Why didn't anybody do anything a...bout it?" Benton Harold and the other murdered senators did do something about it," Hank replied almost quietly. "Operation Goldfish was the result. Investigations take time. Now the evidence is in the hands of the President--good, solid court-admissible evidence obtained under warrant. It will take six to thirty months, but you'll witness a lot. "What's the occasion?" Oh, he likes to dress up in prissy clothes. He doesn'treally need an occasion, but he's going to volunteer togreet visitors at the Civil War memorial. He'll be therethis Saturday. Tell your friends." That's funny," said one of the girls. "We're here to pickup gowns for that, too. We decided to volunteer." Well, that's great. His name is Missy and I'm sure he'sglad to have met some new friends."Mistress guided me back to the dressing room, my faceburning in humiliation. I. I also dumped some money into a couple of fast growing companies that I knew were going to crash when the tech bubble burst. I knew from my other existence when that would happen so I could be one of the lucky ones to bail out just in time and still make a killing.Jean and I were virtually inseparable in spite of all the guys lusting after her body and hitting on her. She fended them off like swatting flies. I decided that the time was right so I asked Jean's dad if I could propose to her. He. “Well, at least that will be fun”, said Megan. “Mind if Rose eats with us?” She sounded a little hesitant, and it was rather cute. I liked the thought of Megan melted by Rose’s affections.“Sure, why not?” I said.I went into class just as the bell rang, and set personal issues aside to focus on my notes. Every now and then I thought about Amanda, and wondered how she was doing under the pressure of our little game. I suspected she wouldn’t be able to stop thinking about it for a moment..