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What don't you get, he asked? I get the feeling you want to marry me, I said. That would be impossible unless you loved me, he said. And I don't, I asked? If you love someone he said, you want to give them everything you own, it is in the marriage vows. You want to be with them all the time, even when it is impossible. When I spoke to my property manager about you, he knew of you, and told me you were going to marry someone else.

Apparently he knows more about your private life than I do. Undoubtedly you are the topic of much conversation in the business world, and probably the details of all your deals and negotiations are well known. You are haggling with me about the price you will receive for you next advertisement. I'm just trying to protect your interests. Look at your own quote about loving a man as much as you are devoted to your little dog. It as if I don't exist in your world, he said.

 That hurt me a lot. It is just I've never heard of you before now, I said, and here you are telling me what a great businessman you are, and how you own an airline in China, and this and that. Maybe I just think you are trying to get money from me. Don't worry, he said, I'll probably have a job in a week or so, and if not, a week or so after that. It isn't too dificult to survive, either with or without you. You proclaim you are a christian with that cross around your neck, but I wonder if it has any true meaning for you?

 I'm making my 100 million a year offer to at least eleven other women, but I don't want them just investing in real estate and collecting rent. I'm asking that you think of some really good investments before you get the money. The way I see it, he said, is that spreading the risk makes everyone more secure, so think of this as strictly business please.

You are playing into their hand by delaying your decision, he said. Who is "they"  again, I asked?  Any rich businessman who is willing to conspire against women in business, simply because they are successful he said. I'm tied up legally, but that doesn't change what I own. Any inteligent woman would see that, but playing games around the fact helps nobody.

What sort of person would you be, he said, if you saw someone in crisis, and left them there?
Remind me again of why you are tied up legally, I asked as sweetly as I could? Something to do with your interest in little children, was it? Girls, he replied. What, I said? Little girls? I'm not interested in little boys, in any way sexually, he replied. I'm pleased to hear it, I said. No it was a wrong phone number, he said. What, you ended up in a psych ward because of a wrong phone number?  Exactly, he said. And how can that happen, I asked?

Well, he said, it was 1991, the year after I released the new Microsoft Operating system, and almost a year after my mother, our mother died. Do you mean, yours and my mother, I asked? No, are we sisters, he said? I was just checking to see that you knew we are not brother and sister, I said. He looked, blankly, at me. It was hard to tell what he was thinking. 

 No, he said, I have an older sister, didn't I mention her? No, it is the first time, I said. Ok, so she was staying in my house, with her daughter, and we had been to the beach, and I had drunk too much wine, about two litres, but that was okay, she was driving, because she was being a bitch, and arguing the point about everything, when I just wanted to relax and enjoy the day. What happened, I asked? We got home, and she said the sitting room, lounge, was a mess, so I told her four year old daughter to come and clean it up. It was mainly her toys and wrapping paper from Christmas day. I think my sister was pissed off that I didn't get her much for her birthday, on the 1st January, and this was the 2nd. Her second birthday, I asked, Yep. So I told my neice to come and get her presents, or they were going in the fire. She had this one particularly annoying toy she loved, a plastic flute thing with three buttons on it. it only played the note middle C, plus a half tone above, and a quarter tone.

 It was my house after all, but she refused, and just wanted to shout at me. So I pushed her out the door, and watched the television, and fell asleep until the police arrived? What happene then, I asked? They said my foulders were "smouldering", actually they were smoking a little, but there was no danger. And she accused me of assault. The cops arrested me. She had gone next door to call tehm so as not to wake me up. They took me to the tauranga Police station, where I asked to call a lawyer. So I gave them the number of my cousin Bruce, but gave them the number of my Uncle and aunt by mistake

 I said I still wanted to see a judge, and explain my position, but as it was still Christmas, the courts were closed, and I was brought before two JPs, and they agreed to have me assessed. So I was assessed, and they thought I was fine, and I was home in three weeks, by which time my sister was back in Australia with most of the loot my mother left when she died, and I suddenly clicked I'd been had. The authorities decided to keep me under the mental health act for an indefinite period anyway, no smoke without fire, they said, and they even had my GP give me some jabs of a sedative, Dipixel, but at the end of the year I decided to take a trip to Japan, China, and London and the USA, but that's another story. Wow, I said. Yes, he said, I met a Korean woman and decided to marry her. What happened to her, I asked? Again,its a long story, he said,she was very posh, and very sincere, but her "exclusive" marriage proposal apparently included half a dozen other men, so the offer sort of lapsed. I see, I said. more

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