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Except her ex-boyfriend of the last year-and-a-half who had been in college in Chicago and, as it turned out, skipped classes to hitchhike back in time to see her in the play before having to rush back to school the next morning...
...boyfriend and I were trying to see if we could get each other," said Heather L. Bowie...
Wanna be JULIA ROBERTS' boyfriend? There are two requirements: be famous; be seen with her. Last week's rumor had Roberts cooing with MATTHEW PERRY from Friends. And purported photographic proof of their liaison exists, thanks to American Journal, which shot a segment on the Friends set when Roberts did a cameo. Not only did Roberts and Perry kiss in the course of televisual duty; they were also seen together afterward. This brings the tally of men Roberts has reportedly been linked with since just before her split from Lyle Lovett to six, not counting the really nutty stories...
...explanation. Somehow, the male's odd behavior must have offered an evolutionary advantage, or it never would have become entrenched. Now Maydianne Andrade, a University of Toronto graduate student, reports in the current Science that she has discovered what it is. A female who is chewing on her boyfriend is distracted and allows him to copulate longer. That lets him deposit the maximum amount of sperm, giving him a better chance of passing along his genes. Beyond that, a sperm-filled female tends to spurn new suitors, ensuring that the suicidal male, not a rival, has the offspring...
What follows is not supposed to be funny, but sure enough, the boyfriend whom Caroline jilted with a Dear John note when she fled town a quarter-century ago is still single, not too thick around the waist, and still carries the torch. He's also, natch, the prosecuting attorney who intends to jug Caroline's niece--who, it develops, is not really her niece, but ... Tension mounts. So do the old lovers. But the tale's prevailing oddity is that Caroline is not convincingly female. Not that she should cry or lose earrings, but as things...