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that.  Who was he?  Who was she?  Why was he so drawn to her?  What were these feelings that he so easily professed? Is it just Infatuation? Or Love?  It couldn’t be.  Could his loneliness just be getting the best of him? The only thing he was sure of was that he’d never felt this way about anyone, ever.   He would meet her as planned on Friday night, but maybe the time away from her would help him figure out his head a bit. He shook his head; then why did he dread it so much?  He was hopeless.
       He turned on his computer to try to do some work.  Hopefully on Friday when they talked, they could sort through some of this stuff, and they could both feel better.  But what will he say?  He decided he would just leave the ball in Amanda’s court for now and hope she could figure it out for both of them.
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                  “Everything is packed and ready to go ,” typed Amanda.  “ I’m so excited, and so are the children.  We haven’t been around the family in a long time and I’m really looking forward to it.  Then there’s roller coasters, beaches, Woohoo, I just can’t wait!”
               Ray laughed to himself.  “She is so cute” he said out loud.  He wondered if there was ever going to be a way to meet her.  He doubted it.   She was asking him if he was looking forward to his vacation.  “ Not really, Mandy.  I am, because I get to get away, and spend some quality time with the girls.  Diego has agreed to meet us there for a few days and that should be fun.  Diego and girls in bikinis, now that’s entertainment!”
          Mandy laughed.  How was it that he could be so funny and sweet and almost everything she wanted except for the little thing of being twenty-five hundred miles away?  Life was so unfair.  She then asked, “ So, Ray, are you going to tell Diego about ‘us’?
          “ Well, Mandy40 ,” he replied, “ I would except you told me yesterday, there was no ‘us’.  Remember?”
           Amanda typed in < blushin g>.  “ Yes, of course I remember.  We’re friends.  I was just testing you.”
           Ray laughed, “ Yeah, ok.  But while we’re on the subject, how am I going to go two whole weeks without talking to you!!”
           She felt the same way.  She wondered that herself.  “ While at my cousins, I’ll e-mail you and let you know how we are doing.  How would that be?”
           “ Mandy that would be great!  I’d love that.  Then while I’m at the beach, I’ll try and call you sometime.  Would that be ok?”                       
          “ Sure, why not, Ray,” she typed , “that would be fun, and maybe I could talk to your wife too.”
           “Very funny.  I won’t call you if you don’t want me too, Mandy” Ray frustrated, decided to go for it. “I know we have feelings that neither one of us can explain. Maybe we should just admit it, out loud, right now.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    She suddenly had this unexplainable feeling that she was going to be sick.  “ Ray, I think you should stop while you’re ahead.  Let’s not get in over our heads here.  Let’s think about this before we say anymore.”
          Ray ignored her, “ No Mandy, I’m tired of thinking.  Tired of not telling you how I feel about you.  I always wonder