Looking For You All My Life Part 89

4for Christmas we'll have time to really sit down and

catch up. I can't wait to see you By the way little

brother Barry is coming too. Still single and more hand-

some than ever. I was telling Mom that the age differ-

ence between you and him no longer seems like much

of an issue to me-not that I'm playing matchmaker.

Actually if I was playing matchmaker, I might introduce

you to the man I had dinner with tonight (strictly busi-

ness, mind you-my heart still belongs to Jedi). But

anyway this guy who is supposed to be my ~nemy'

(long story...). turns out to be incredibly decent-only

my first impressions, of course. He is a little older than

us, I think, and divorced, and there may be good rea-

sons for that... but I found him surprisingly good

company-pleasant, thoughtful, and polite. He's the Looking for You All My Life141

money man" behind a controversial development

going in up here (part of that long story). Anyway I'm

going to go check out some of his developments to

see if he's really for real or not. You may have heard his

name befor~Colin Byers. Know anything about him?

The fly in the ointment is that Jed saw me with him

tonight, and I'm sure he didn't understand. It doesn't

help that we've "put our relationship on hold" for

Leah's sake. (Jed's decision.) By the way do you ever

call men? Just wondering.

Love you.

mc

Just as she hit the "send" b.u.t.ton, an idea occurred to her.

Jed had an email address. She had seen it on his business

card. She wondered how regularly he checked it. Somehow

the idea of communicating via email wasn't as intimidating

as calling him on the phone. And who knew, perhaps this

was a way they could remain in contact without drawing

Leah's attention to themselves. Anyway, she figured it was

worth a try. She only hoped that Leah didn't access his email

at work. Perhaps she could keep the content somewhat

generic in this message and simply see what happened.

Hijed,

I was just online and remembered that you get email,

and I thought perhaps you might enjoy getting a mes-

sage. Although, I'm not sure how regularly you check

your in-box.. As you saw, I had dinner with "the

-enemy" tonight. My purpose was to attain more infor-

mation about the development and to try to maintain

an objective viewpoint about this whole controversy

But when I saw you, I wished we could talk. I miss our

talks, Jed. I thought maybe we could "talk" through

email. Or would that be taking our relationship "off

hold" so to speak? Ijust figured this might be a private

way to sort of hold things together during the interim.