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"Thank God I found you."

"Hey, I'd been watching Monica since she came to EDK. Then that skinny creep kept meeting her in the lobby. It didn't make sense. Real estate lobbyists don't come to environmental firms to discuss legislation. We're like Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker. When you showed up and said Monica had been killed, and when I saw Web hovering over your shoulder, I knew something was wrong. I just didn't know what ... Hey, I have to go."

A bus stops at the curb. I squeeze her hand and she squeezes back. I want to give her a hug and a lot more. But all I do is hold her hand. Finally, she disengages herself and steps onto the bus. It rumbles away toward the giant crowd that is gathering on the mall. At the back of the bus, a hand-lettered sheet flaps in the breeze.

GAY RIGHTS MARCH TO FREEDOM -- 2000.

A man comes up running. His face is flushed. He asks: "Is that the only bus going out to march?"

"I don't know," I answer truthfully. "But it's a good cause."

The bus turns a corner. We both watch it go.


HUGH LESSIG, 41, is a newspaper reporter for the Daily Press in Newport News, Va. He lives in the state capital of Richmond, with his wife, Ann Marie. He writes about state government, politics and whichever elected official happens to commit news on a given day. Given his life's calling, he is a particular fan of reporter-detectives such as Frederick Nebel's "Kennedy of the Free Press." More stories are available on his website, Frisco Foil Inc, at http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/8002/.

Copyright (c) 2000 Hugh Lessig