From: michael.stemper@gmail.com   
      
   On 18/10/2025 12.00, Robert Woodward wrote:   
   > In article <10d06rq$1qpkc$3@dont-email.me>,   
   >   "Michael F. Stemper"  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 07/10/2025 02.49, The Horny Goat wrote:   
   >>> On Sat, 4 Oct 2025 18:40:38 -0500, Jay Morris    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>> He became a veteranarian and an expert on parasites.  He and   
   >>>>> Florence met when she staggered into his office bleeding   
   >>>>> profusely.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Isn't that how all the best relationships start?   
   >>>   
   >>> I don't know about that but I do know that my girlfriend's auto crash   
   >>> (another driver T-boned her) where she spent most of the evening with   
   >>> an icepack on top of her head while lying with her head on my lap was   
   >>> a critical moment in what eventually led to our marriage...she was a   
   >>> "pretty sad puppy" that night.   
   >>   
   >> Kimball Kinnison's romance with (and eventual marriage to) Clarrissa   
   >> Mae MacDougall started (and not very auspiciously) when he was one of   
   >> her patients in a trauma-care ward. This, despite Lacey's statement   
   >> that such things never happen.   
   >   
   > IIRC, they had met before then (IIRC, in _Galactic Patrol_) and had made   
   > an impression on each other.   
      
   In Chapter 17 of _Galactic Patrol_, yes. Its title is "Nothing Serious at   
   All", and it takes place one chapter after "Kinnison Meets the Wheelmen".   
   When he met the Wheelmen, he got shot up by a machine gun, fell tens of   
   meters onto a pile of rubble. He made it to his speedster, and set its   
   course generally Tellus-ward.   
      
   Lacy and MacDougall went to the speeder, which was free, removed him   
   from it, and inerted him separately so as not to worsen the damage.   
   After getting him down to Tellus, they put him in a trauma-care ward.   
   Days or weeks later, when he regained consciousness was when he and   
   MacDougall first met.   
      
   They certainly made impressions on each other. He called her a   
   "dumb-bell" and she called him a "brat".   
      
   But, this is what I was talking about. When they first met.   
      
   --   
   Michael F. Stemper   
   Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding;   
   Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)