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best friends, Mike, the owner of "Perfect Stranger", one of the most popular bars in the district (which part of its success was certainly due to the usual presence of Alan), and Catherine, a lipstick lesbian who had just opened a sex shop in Capitol Hill, Seattle's gay district. Both agreed that some promiscuity always comes in handy, but when it becomes a habit, it can end up turning nasty. Mike joked from across the bar while serving drinks, saying that he would like to reach the point to disgust sex, while Catherine, adjusting the piercing of the nose, reproached him with her eyes and said she had already been there, and now tried not to have easy sex. When she wanted to have some non strings fun, she'd draw upon the assorted devices offered in her store. Catherine spoke to Alan about psychology and philosophy, and he got some new age and self-help books, but didn't really pay much attention to them. However, so many recipes for a healthy mental life eventually helped him to find an answer. It had been a few weeks that he had slowed down considerably his pace of conquests, but that was a preventive measure until finding the real solution. Undoubtedly influenced by Catherine, he decided to achieve that no woman would humbled herself because of him. That would be his goal. Thus, he ended only having sex with girls from outside the district who didn't know who he was, and didn't considered him a trophy, a fact that had become the cause of so many humiliations.
    One March afternoon he met Patti at the "Perfect Stranger". It was a very fortuitous encounter that none of them wanted, but ended up with both sitting at a table to share a beer and some nachos with guacamole. Patti didn't know who Alan was, and when he realized it, he understood this was a good opportunity to have sex without humiliation. That night ended in Alan's bed. They exchanged phones numbers, although no one called the other, but a few days later they met by chance in a second hand bookshop on 52nd Street. They chatted carefree and eventually they shared a sandwich. Confident and cheerful, Alan told Patti that he worked as the principal's assistant. Patti didn't work at the university, but at an university transact office, where also Alan's reputation had reached. She was surprised and said that she had never imagined him so approachable. The image that many girls would represent of him, was the one of an unbearable overweening. Very attractive, yes. They laughed together about it and that was all. Back home, Patti suddenly thought that she was starting to like Alan a lot. Moreover, being who he was, suddenly gave a new dimension. She was very nervous and tampered the paper where Alan's phone number was until it was worn and unreadable, but she didn't care because she had memorized it.
    Alan thought about Patti and realized that something about her seemed different from the other girls. Even after knowing who he was, the two had laughed openly about his reputation as a flirt. So he was glad when she called him three days later. They decided to go to the movies. They went to the "Broadway Market" to watch a Turkish subtitled movie which impressed them terribly. They recovered from the drama they had seen in a brewery which produced their own varieties. A rock band played in a resounding live, versions of classic American with distorted guitars. Three beers later both roared with laughter at every abominable version. They glanced each other briefly and ended their kisses at Patti's place. But Alan didn't stay over. He had noticed something different about her, but still didn't know what it was. Patti didn't take amiss that Alan left, but surprisingly, she wept bitterly that night when she realized she had fallen.
    Four days later Patti phoned again. Alan was glad, but when Patti invited him to see a newly opened exhibition of the Leonardo Da Vinci works that Bill Gates had just acquired, he felt obliged to accept. There was nothing to prevent him from saying