’ It would be nice to see a friendly face from my past. I messaged back. ‘Would love to. Congrats on the interview. Do you need me to help in any... other way?’ I thought he may like to stay overnight if he didn’t want to tackle the long drive to and from Wellington twice in one day. A reply came back almost immediately. ‘Can you pretend to be my GF for the interview? They allow whanau support, and they kept asking me all these questions about why I wanted to move to a small town. To be honest,. In all my five-plus years at the university I’d never gone on even a single date. As smart as I was, that’s just how shy I was when around the opposite sex so I was shell-shocked as well as tongue tied when Daisy sat opposite me in the library that cold day in early December. She was my exact opposite—beautiful and gregarious, the kind of woman who attracts men the way flowers attract bees and butterflies. She had the most beautiful eyes—sparkling blue—and light brown hair with not a strand. Occasionally she would slide up behind me while I was dressing and slip a matching bra around my chest. Everything I put on fit perfectly. She’d really done her homework. On the “bra” days, I had to wear a jacket and tie to work, if only to get to my private cubicle at the telemarketing firm where I worked. It should probably be noted that my job entailed making lots of potentially sensitive phone inquiries per day, so each “marketeer” was provided a private workspace. That, along with my habit. ‘‘The Rear Admiral is Montgomery Scott and the Captain is Leonard McCoy - two excellent men with great records,’’ the Chief of Naval Operations said.‘‘I’ll have the Secret Service and the press office make the necessary arrangements,’’ I said.Secretary of State Dean was standing at the door as we finished.He handed me a translated letter from the Chinese government and read out loud his copy for emphasis as I read along. They were demanding we remove our ships from Russian naval base and the.