For one thing they would all become incredibly wealthy from their long-term investments. For another thing, everyone they know (except for each other) would be gone in 80 yea... moreFor one thing they would all become incredibly wealthy from their long-term investments. For another thing, everyone they know (except for each other) would be gone in 80 years. What else? Wouldn't it make a good book or movie?
When I was at college I was very shy and timid and avoided boys as I was scared of sex and all things sexual. To make matters worse I was endowed with a face and figure which anoth... moreWhen I was at college I was very shy and timid and avoided boys as I was scared of sex and all things sexual. To make matters worse I was endowed with a face and figure which another girl might have exploited quite literally to the hilt; but here I was pathetically refusing boys' offers to take me out. I restricted myself to girls' company, particularly one or two close friends, which exasperated quite a few boys, especially one Anil (not his real name) two years my senior, who was temperamentaly boisterous and took particular delight in jeering at me and a girlfriend calling us lesbians, which became my nickname all through my college years, even aftet he had finished. I feared Anil and cowered every time I saw him even glancing at me, which he did often and deliberately, well knowing my fear of him.A little over 10 years after my postgraduation, when I was 34 or so, I ran into Anil quite accidentally on the street, and I froze. He came over to me smiling, addressed me by my name, not my nickname, and, reading ... less
