I'd really knocked myself out to try to make this a special night for her. I made reservations at the finest restaurant in town. I had three dozen ros...es sent to her apartment. And, for the coup de grace, I bought her a $7,000 diamond tennis bracelet.When I went to pick her up for our big date, she told me the bad news."Listen, Carl, I forgot that Randy promised to take me out tonight, too," she said. My heart sank. "Looks like we're going to have to postpone our date," she added. I began getting grief about it well before the broadcast, because somebody from CBS got in touch with Marty Adrianopolis and asked him about the party where Marilyn and I met. Then he was asked if he had ever heard about the Carl Buckman Experience. I gather they didn’t get a great interview because he was laughing too hard to answer the questions. Afterwards he called me and gave me a major ration of shit on the whole thing.I went home that weekend to watch it. Sunday night the special ran. My heart skipped a few beats. I was frozen. My soul was no more. Steph hadn't left, she knew exactly what I was doing. It was obvious. The open drawer, the mess I had left. "Well?" She asked waiting for a response. Like I was in any sort of state to give a response. Steph paused for a minute "sit there and let me think what to do". All my fears had come true, everything I panicked about was to become a reality. I was fucked! "I think you're in need of a punishment fit for a sissy like you". "I. Using adult Stem cells and a mutigen culture, new cells and complex structures like muscles could be constructed from the patient's waste tissue. Done in a super clean environment, the subject would heal in days, not months, and risk of infection was negligible. The developers had even envisioned a type of conditioning for the mind. It was suggested that, for example, terrorists could be persuaded to change their ways by using a network of fiber optics to programme the brain to reject violence.