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were you?"

"Um. yes. That is, if you won't come along with me."

Dana just stared at Jerry silently, looking hurt. Then she pursed her lips,
and Jerry knew she was gauging his sincerity. He hardened his face into
a mask of resolve to let her know he was serious.

"Okay," Dana said, "why don't you wear something relatively simple? Khaki
slacks, a dress shirt. You can probably still get into the navy blazer if
you don't button the front."

Jerry's jaw dropped. "You're letting me go? By myself?"

"Hell, no. This may be one of the stupidest things you've done in a long
time, Jerry Noonan, but if you're determined to make a fool of yourself,
I'm coming along to keep an eye on you."

Dana walked over to the other closet, opened it, and began making plans of
her own.


JERRY ORDERED an autocab, which took them up the highway, past places that
should have been familiar but weren't any longer. They just hadn't had a need
to go into Woodbridge in the past twenty-five years, and much had changed. On
the short ride, Jerry and Dana reminisced and pointed out to each other where
long-gone places had been. The cab left the highway and slid up in front of
the Candy Bar, which still looked vaguely familiar except for the gaudy new
3-D laser billboard in front. Jerry began to have second thoughts. He punched
some commands into the autocab's console, paying extra to keep the cab on
standby at the destination, just in case they wanted to make a hasty exit.

"Hey, look!" Jerry said, pointing. "They still have the old fountain out
front."

The decorative fountain was a small, round pool over which flew several
nude cherubs supported by water jets. The water was tinted a garish shade of
blue, and colored lights made the gushing water look even more unnatural.

"Bad taste never seems to fall out of fashion," Dana said.

"Lighten up ... McGraw," Jerry said. "It's still pretty much as I remember it,
although I don't recall either of us thinking it was so ugly years ago."

"What did we know back then? We were just kids."

"We had fun, though, didn't we?" Jerry asked.

Dana smiled at him. "Come on, let's get this over with."