I’m ex-military and there on an Army scholarship, so she introduces me to her very-Marxist dean with, ‘Here is Tom Bradford. He shoots Communists, but don’t worry, only Soviet ones sent to Haiti and paid by the Kremlin to fight. You are not paid to support Communists, you do it for free, so Tom probably won’t shoot you.’ ” Naomi chortled, but her mom had told it slightly differently one New Year’s after drinking too much wine. Instead of introducing her dad by name, she’d called him “a handsome student I am sleeping with.”
