An Old Fart Wins Big
Copyright© 2024 by REP
Introduction
About two months ago, I overheard a comment related to a boyfriend dumping his pregnant girlfriend in a university cafeteria. I started thinking about the personality of a man who would abandon a woman he had impregnated. Those thoughts resulted in me having a rather bland fantasy. The timeline of the fantasy covered about thirty minutes in a university cafeteria. It was about the interaction of an ex-boyfriend with his pregnant ex-girlfriend, and the interaction of an old man with the pregnant ex-girlfriend.
My fantasy took over my thoughts. One day, while I was working diligently on Part 4 of Opening Earth, I decided to turn the fantasy into a story. This story is the end result of the comment I heard turning into a daydream. Unfortunately, I haven’t done much work on Part 4 of Opening Earth.
I had planned to use UC San Diego as one of the locations in the story. Since I have never visited any of the universities in this area, I have no idea of the campus layout or of the size and relative locations of the universities’ facilities.
In a situation like this, I normally work from Map Quest, or a similar program, and photos of the interior of buildings to get my details close to reality. I was unable to locate suitable information to support any of the local universities, so I created a fictional university. Doing that stops all the emails from readers who would comment on the difference between my imagination and reality.
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