That was not assured, so an expensive vacation trip to a real nude beach someplace was not worth our investment. It seemed the fantasy would stay a fa...ntasy. Still, she was willing to consider a closer and less expensive option for inspiration - if we could find one.Her logic was that a cheap crapshoot was better than an expensive crapshoot. I agreed.A few weeks later I saw a blurb about a new private beach opening nearby in the Spring. The entire area - hundreds of acres including three. Funny, but with the memories I could muster from this life and the first one, I couldn't find a single instance where that mattered to anyone I knew.It was also an absolute incontrovertible truth that Celia Harwell was about as drop-dead gorgeous a woman as I remembered seeing in either life. Even Carrie couldn't compete. Of course Celia was nineteen or twenty, so she was as far removed from me and my social sphere as Alpha Centauri was from Earth.I had my bike and Ned with me, so we jumped in. After the presentation, they adjourned for a bathroom break and give people a chance to think about the presentation and think of questions they had for the Federation.During the break the President was talking to Mark and Liyana, as Mark received a message from Maren saying she was back and waiting outside.The President just laughed, “Your pilot is already back from travelling to another planet! The problems of a little country like ours must seem quite insignificant to you?”Mark said, “Not at. "What's wrong, Sweetie?" Someone has taken Sally and is asking for money from Paul. Paul is sending a limo here to pick me up and take me to his Learjet at Midway. I have to go to Ohio." No, you don't have to go to Ohio. We have to go to Ohio. I will not let you go through this alone." You want to go through this with me?" I love you, and I could not live with myself if I wasn't there for you. I wish neither of us had to go through it, but if you are going through this, then I am too. How many.