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After getting the spiel from the various boards (and a slide show from the business board that looked like something George Lucas had a hand in), I talked with the sports editors at the time, John Trainer and Tarek Farouki...
...Harvard-William and Mary football game in Williamsburg, Virginia, was our ultimate destination. Tarek, Sean, and I were reporting on the game; Amanda was shooting the pictures. But somewhere along the way--I think Trenton, N.J.--the means became more important than the end. What can you talk about when you're in a small, enclosed space with lots of time to kill? Only one thing (okay, three): other people. Relationships. Romance...
...covered all the bases. And as the shields fell, we learned about the not-so-romantic moments. How Tarek had once gone eight days without evacuating his bowels ("butt yoga," he called it). That Sean had once dated Miss Teen Kansas. That I won't have milk on my cereal. That Amanda's boxer shorts glowed in the dark...
...also had the perfect soundtrack for our reminiscing: the Seventies. We had Saturday Night Fever (mine) and the soundtrack to "Reservoir Dogs" (also mine). We had Tarek's Tracy Chapman. We had Amanda's "mushy tape," the stuff our high-school dances were made of. Most alarmingly, we had Sean's prized cassette of Swedish supergroup ABBA's Voulez-Vous...
...howled the blues with Chapman and hollered in falsetto with the Bee Gees. We found out that Kathy Ireland and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, went to Sean's high school, and we found out that Amanda thinks Cary Elwes is the hottest guy ever. Tarek and I rhapsodized about the pre-Guns `n' Roses Stephanie Seymour. We discussed what we find attractive in other people--besides nice eyes...