I spent the rest of the afternoon with a the new pipeline team going over Thornbird's proposal. It was complex and fraught with political bottlenecks. It was getting late so I told the team to get the data and any insights over to Maggie and I would study it at home.

Heading home, I thought about just partnering up with Thornbird without the analysis in return for him insisting I see Rebecca and Samantha. I was leaking again and a little love pulsed my way. I was an open book to my new loves.

About half way home Samantha began to leak. She was reading a human interest article in...