the war was won and every man would be rich and at peace forever. ‘ “I’m Gavin Stevens,” I said. “And I’m going on thirty years old.” ‘ “I know it,” she said. But I felt thirty, even if I wasn’t quite. She was sixteen. And how could you say to a child (as we said then): “Give me a date?” And what would you (at thirty) do with it? And you dont just simply invite the child: you ask the child’s parents if it can come.
