From: robertaw@drizzle.com   
      
   In article <10d0j4v$1vakh$1@dont-email.me>,   
    "Michael F. Stemper"  wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   I was thinking a particular scene was before that; I appear to be wrong.   
      
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