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graduated with academic honors and a degree in Business Administration, with an emphasis in marketing," she said proudly.
    "But you wanted to be more social, didn't you?"
    "Yes, but I knew there would be time later."
    "But you weren't sure, were you?"
    "No. But no one can be sure of the future. I just knew or felt that there would be a later," she said, and paused, wondering if she should look toward him.
    "Please go on."
    "I had glowing recommendations from my teachers, and I landed a good job in New York, working for an up-and-coming marketing and consulting firm. I was determined to work my way up to the top, no matter how long it took, or how much work I had to do."
    "Who were you trying to prove it to? Yourself or your father?"
    "I don't know, maybe both. All I knew was that I had to keep going and, being a perfectionist, I always tried to be prepared for every possible situation."
    "But something happened this morning you weren't prepared for, didn't it?"
    "Yes, but how did you know—"
    "Tell me," he said softy before she could finish her question.
    "Well, after parking my car across the street in the company's lot, just as I do every morning, and crossing the street in my normal place, a big delivery truck came barreling down the road straight towards me. My first instinct was to leap in the opposite direction, but I slipped and fell. The strange thing was that if I had leapt in the direction I intended, the truck would have run me over for sure. It was as if the truck had anticipated my thought of jumping and swerved in that direction. But slipping and falling the other way actually saved my life."
    "Sometimes the planned or anticipated reaction is not the best," he interjected. "We become creatures of habit, and that could lead to our downfall." He paused before continuing. "I'm sorry; I didn't mean to digress. Please, continue."
    "I placed a call to the police to report the incident. But, since I hadn't gotten a license plate number, and the description fit a lot of trucks in New York City, chances of finding the driver were pretty slim, according to the police officer. He tried to explain that the driver probably just woke up and didn't see me. It was just one of those freak accidents, you know, nothing 'intentional.'"
    "Do you feel better now that you have talked about these things?"
    "Yes. Yes, I do. That's what you intended, isn't it?"
    "Yes. I wanted you to be relaxed, to feel at ease with yourself before we go on."
    "Go on? But isn't this just a…dream?" she asked.
    "A dream? No, it isn't a dream. This is your beginning. Our beginning."
    Sarah didn't understand what was happening but, strangely enough, she really didn't care either. She hadn't felt this calm in a very long time, especially with a man.
    Suddenly, the dream appeared to pause for a moment, and she was halfway back in her office, but not totally out of the dream. She could hear his calm voice soothing her from the scene in the Forties bar and, at the same time, she was in her office preparing to remove the wrinkles from her clothing with the wrinkle remover.
    Due to the distraction of her thoughts by the man in her dream, she didn't see that the device was smoking, not from the steam, but from an electrical overload. As she picked it up, the man in her dream said, " Look at me. I want to see your face." She turned and looked into his kind face and became lost in his dark eyes.
    Her whole body suddenly surged with an electricity of anticipation unlike anything she'd experienced before. Then everything winked out in her mind and she plummeted into darkness.
     
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    The police officer examined the electrical device that was now charred almost past recognition.
    "Never seen anything like it," he said to the medical examiner, who was covering the woman's body with a blanket.
    "Yeah, it is a bit bizarre," the examiner said. "You would think the body would be charred as well. But it's not. Not a burn on it."
    "Did anyone see it?"
    "Yeah, a