“This is about the most unromantic proposal a girl could ever imagine, T J Howard. I think Dunn-Dumb might have done better.”
TJ laughed. “Yeah, he is a regular Demosthenes. Com’on, Sim. Think about it. Is practicality a bad thing between two people who are as close as we are?”
“No. I guess it isn"t. But is this just another impulse like the impulse you had to follow Meredith to Colorado?”
“Perhaps, but some impulses are good, aren"t they? Like the impulse I had to come over and ask you to dance with me all those years ago?”
“I don"t know what to say.”
“Then let"s get married and raise the baby together. And if we do it right away, no one needs to ever know the details. I don’t want to be a biological father to any child because my body is polluted with medication, Sim. But this way,
