that was a bizarre meeting. we had dinner with paul and maria and my parents. maria s deal was not clear, a student, russian woman studying at an american university. gay was very fixated on why she was a single beautiful woman and couldn t get a date. medium, i knew she was dating paul erickson. she did not know that. that was the elephant in the room. she was an interesting figure and had almost a stage presence to her. your eye was drawn to her because you didn t know what her deal was. i could tell he was trying to figure out what her deal was as did i, just knew that he knew a little more than i did. you write about the trip to disney world saying, quote, speaking of disney, i got back from the five night extravaganza with my family and maria and paul are dating and progressively held hands as time went on.