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Pricilla’s date with Roger had been fun. The two of them first spent an hour deeply engaged in thoughtful, stimulating conversation. Then they enjoyed Tai food and discussed the latest foreign films they both found intellectually challenging and fulfilling. It was a lovely, spirited evening of entertainment.

And Pricilla couldn’t have been more bored.

Not that she didn’t appreciate thoughtful, stimulating conversation and high culture. As a well-educated, refined young lady from Berkshire, England, she appreciated these things endlessly. But after seven months of dating Roger, she wanted more.