“Surprise? Oh yes, it was a surprise alright. Heh, heh, it was kind of like seeing a 40-year-old ghost.”
“Oh, well, thanks a bunch for that!”
“Well, I mean, you don’t look like a ghost. It’s just that you would expect someone to age in forty years. That’s what I mean.”
“So you’re saying that I looked as if I were 58?”
“No, I mean it was like I saw you forty years ago.”
“But I wasn’t here forty years ago.”
“Yes, but it was as if I were 58 in 2009, and went back forty years to see you at 18.”
“But that would make it 1969, and I’d be 16.”
“Catherine, would you quit being so literal—you sound like a high school kid.”
“I graduated high school last year.” Catherine’s eyes flared in anger.
“The point is that, that…it was a strange experience.”
“I guess!”
“Anyway, I think I’m being
