I haven't ascertained her dreams, hopes and ambitions, but I like that she is trying to be something more than her stripper friend.She did a little re...search on me too. Asking my buddies about me and actually getting my phone number from one of them.We finally connected yesterday, with a text out of the blue. We met for a light lunch and things progressed from sitting across the table to sitting beside oneanother, hand holding and a light kiss. I am generally a nice guy and treated her as a. Then he offered, “I’ll buy you coffee to show there’s no hard feelings.” Getting the coffee he pretended to put cream and sugar in it while actually pouring several drops of an extremely powerful and addictive drug that had fallen into the gang’s possession.Lucy took several large gulps of the coffee to calm her nerves and then said, “You loaned Brian $20,000. He can’t pay. I can’t pay. Can we please make a deal?”“Well, Mrs. Harper, maybe we can cut a deal. But why don’t you just finish off. ..," she listed off."Jill, you're trying too hard," I said depressed.Every movie I watched generally had the man as the hero and the woman asthe damsel in distress. All the commercials had women talking aboutcooking, cleaning, and child products. A number of comedy shows had thehusband being a doofus and the wife being the genius. I felt defensiveabout my former gender and didn't feel empowered.I continued to watch a male lion hump the lioness. Maybe that was it. Ineeded to be more like an. " Good," I whispered to myself. I had planned this party with one thought in mind. I was going to do a little seduction of my own and it wasn't with my wife.Caroline had a boyfriend who she had been going out with for nearly six months now. Daniel Oreko. Everyone called him Dan. He was an OK guy. I had helped him out of his mom's house and into his own apartment. That's when I met Christin, his mother. She was a single mom at 15; the teenage father just a k** himself. Christin never remarried.