At the reception in the gardens of the Nile Palace Shaun thanked everyone for attending amid ribald remarks from Bobby and Cookie.At five the Commodor...e and Doctor Silverman ran Sharon and him in his Humber staff car to the airport where Dad had pulled strings to get them on a flight. Their luggage was already in the DC3 hold. He shook hands with the Commodore and thanked Doctor Silverman who kissed him on his cheek whispering in his ear, “Take care of her son.”They relaxed in the uncomfortable. "Then they explained their plan. There would be two dates, a week apart,when each of them would give me their best shot, do their utmost to provethat they were the perfect romantic partner. Then they would evaluatethe dates and my reactions to each of them and they would decide,somehow, which of them would be best for me. The winner would then getme to himself."And the loser has to be a girl forever."I don't know who said that. I was too stunned to notice."What?" I said, aghast."It's the. The older ones have a certain look in their faces. Like a sign of intellect. I like old women just as much I love poetry. I write them and me often show off my works by placing them in such order in my house that people read them as if by chance. Chance makes things so sweet. One day I had placed it on top of a table desperate to get that piece of poetry read by someone. My mom had guests over, and a friend of hers, though quite younger was unnaturally pleased with my rhymes. She had that same. "She stopped from saying the words 'spit up'."Did you really ring me?" she asked after a moment's silence."Yeah, a couple of times," I said, "but your phone was never switched on." Oh my god," she said putting her head in her hands. "Shit, shit, shit. Sorry," she looked up at me and smiled. "I thought you didn't, you know want to speak to me and I wasn't going to be the one. God how stupid." I didn't know where you were or your new phone number," I said, "I just hoped you would leave your old.