Chapter 25Jane
“HELLO, ERIC,” I said. “We haven't actually met but I know about you. MIT, last year's valedictorian. Linda, Eric is the student who put together the play last spring.” Linda said she understood the play had been successful, but she hadn't seen it.
“Linda was finishing up with her MBA, Eric. Otherwise she'd have been there.”
“That's okay. We had sell-outs for all the shows. Mr. Gilbert missed it, too. We made a video and gave it to him.”
“I've seen it. You did an awesome job. Now, what's this about the portal?”
Eric told me the same story he told Linda, and that he wanted to honor his word to the president. That didn't surprise me. The president needed men like Eric around him, the kind of person who put value to his word. I told him I thought I could arrange that permi
