HYGIENISTS IN PRINT=VARIOUS DENTAL=FICTION & NON …



HYGIENISTS IN PRINT=VARIOUS DENTAL=FICTION & NON-FICTION– MARCH 2014 [[AUTHORS’S ANSWERS]]

DO YOU HAVE A REAL LIFE TIDBIT OR A SAYING? Let me know [[loismile@]]

I have a real life tidbit. About 8 months a young lady visiting from China driving a rental car, lost control of the car and ended up running into my side porch. Fortunately no one was hurt. Would you believe the weird thing is that her name is Fang.

[[KIDS BOOK]] SILVERLICIOUS =Victoria Kann (who book teeth & tooth fairy)

I LOVE MY ROBOT-Austin Rand, a practicing RDH -2011- -Stand alone- Cozy Romance-Austin contacted me to let me know that book takes place in Beverly Hill & L. A. & involves a RDH In fact, 1 location that’s mentioned a couple of times, takes place on my street a couple of blocks away & locations near me.

For Hart industries, 3 women invent a robot that looks & feels like a real man! It’s programmed to bring food, cook, clean up, talk, listen & perform like a man. Needless, to say, this robot called Gie is very popular with the woman & is making Hart Industries lots of money. He’s not for sale but can be rented for a specific period of time. Three women friends are supposed to meet 3 men on a blind date; however, the middle-aged one refuses to go. She has her reasons.

COMPUTER TIDBITS: NOTE:(The whole book has Pamela Todd, RDH, from the beginning, which we do 't know it is her, to the end. There is an oral surgeon Sam, who’s in a lot of the book. 1. P. 10 "The corners of his mouth  had specks of dried saliva, & he smiled. She could see the biofilm of dental plaque on his teeth." 2. P. 16 You not only jog & walk but you do Pilates exercises, yoga, swimming, stretching, free weights, a hula-hoop, & dental flossing every day." 3. P. 29/30 "Pamela grew up wanting to go to college. A middle class girl could go to college & become a schoolteacher, a nurse or RDH. Her best friend's mother talked her into dental hygiene. By the time she graduated with her bachelor's degree, she realized it would be better to become a DDS. She applied 2 years after graduation, 1972. A mid- western dental school told her they didn't take women because she might someday want to be pregnant & quit working. They didn't want to train a short- term worker. Her own alma mater told her she was too pretty, & why didn't she just marry a nice oral surgeon. And a Texas dental school sent her an application to their dental hygiene program, explaining in a letter personally signed by the Dean of Admissions that women became RDHs, not DDSs." 4. P. 11 "Any occupation that requires the worker to wear protective goggles, a face mask over the mouth & nose that has to be discarded & replaced every 45 minutes, a plastic shield that sits an inch away from the face & covers forehead to chin, a high collar protective robe with long sleeves that bind at the wrist & a length to the knees & latex gloves, or better non- latex nitrile gloves that extend 4 inches up the forearm, that occupation must be dirty , dirty, dirty." 5. P. 34 "I work all day for other people, for them, for their health. It drains me & takes all my effort as a person to accomplish that work. I feel like I get paid because of the personal sacrifice I make every day. I work hard & the work benefits other people. The work is about the result, not the process. The work is difficult & dirty & unpleasant for me, but the result, the result is important. Other people become healthy." 6. P. 55 "Sam, the oral surgeon ((he appears a lot in the book)), did a substantial amount of charity work at home in Los Angeles well as maintained his million dollar private practice. He had his bachelor's degree in Biology, his dental school doctor's degree, Ph.D in engineering & physics, his pilot's license, but he flew commercial flights when he traveled to Mexico, Europe, & Africa to give graduate level classes to practicing DDSs & oral surgeons & to perform surgeries for people who would otherwise never see a doctor," 7. P. 60/1 "She would tell a man patient his gums were getting weak& he needed to improve his oral hygiene by brushing & flossing. he would go home. He'd think, "I need to get my gums in shape." The he would brush more & longer & harder. His gums would never improve. He'd come back for another dental appointment. His gums would look the same. "But I'm brushing more," he'd say. "You have to floss " Pamela would say. "I hate to floss," he'd say. "Don't tell me I have to floss. I don't want to floss." "You have to floss." Pamela would say. It's as if all the single women in the world are screaming all at once, "You have to floss!" While all the single men say, "But I'm brushing more." 8. P. 67 “When I leave the office at 5 o’clock, I am so tired I don’t want to have to go home 7 be charming & sweet & make dinner for some man & make love to him.” 9. p. 83 “Sam is the man of your dreams. He’s a doctor,” Pamela said….. “Sam is a man, & he has a great job, & he cares about other people.” ” 10. p. 88 “Pamela stood in the street & cried. She called a taxi. As the taxi rolled along toward her office, she sobbed, an uncontrollable weeping. The driver asked if there was anything he could do for her. She sniffed & told him she’d be all right. She paid the driver. She stood in the street, took a deep breath & forced down her despair so she could walk into the building. She worked all day. She talked about nothing but flossing & brushing.” 11 p. 89 “Calculating new car payments & her robot rentals, & all her other bills, life had become very expensive. She decided she would have to work full time, 5 days a week, just to keep up with inflation, & all the costs of modern life.” 12. p. 92 “She left for work very early on Thursday to have more room on the road, less traffic at 6:15 a. m. on the 405 Freeway to Manhattan Beach.” 13. p. 94 “With the new car payments my budget is stretched. I many have to work 5 days a week again. I think I can manage, but I work 4 days a week now. I don’t really want to work 5 days.” 14. p. 95 “She never understood why people weren’t more forthright about how they were feeling from moment to moment. She saw this in her patients every day. They hid their true feelings, & she knew they were hiding them. She knew how to make someone feel as relaxed as possible in awkward & uncomfortable situations.” 15. p. 104/5/6 “Do you always get up this early & begin working?” Henry asked.” “Sometimes,” Pamela said. “I like to write about my job. I’ve written dozens of essays & case studies. I can’t not do it. It helps me understand exactly what I do for people & how it’s done.” …. “I made an interesting discovery 3 years ago. I found a natural substance that would completely remove the microbes from the hard surfaces of the teeth, resulting in complete dental cleanliness. Of course the secondary result, the primary result being cleanliness, the secondary result would be to prevent tooth decay & all gum disease. The actual substance has been known for years. What has never been formulated &^ figured out is how human beings can actually use it on a daily basis,” Pamela said”… “I applied for a patent, of course, because I need money as much as any other inventor, & the patent office has responded with outrageous objections, all of which I have overcome. The whole process of writing & rewriting & explaining to the patent examiner, who clearly knows nothing about science, has made me realize how so much dental research goes in the wrong direction,” Pamela said.” …. “What was missing in the dental research is this: the research is conducted to find a specific end result, a 1-shot treatment that will cure some aspect of tooth decay or gum disease. What we need to do is understand the relationship between the life functioning of the living organism, namely a person & the microbiotic life forms we support as part of our functioning. Current dental research diverges from an appreciation of the long-term functioning instead seeking the 1 cause of any disease state or the quick fix the researchers want for the main purpose of making money.”…. “What I found was that what was missing from the research was an understanding of the persistence of the microbial life forms as they interact within the human mouth & that we don’t need a quick fix, & in fact no quick fix can exist. You can’t be cured of the microbes that are normal residents of the human digestive system. You just have to know how to live with them, & how & when to remove them from their desired perches & how & when to kill them off. I found a safe way that any human being can use to accomplish that goal of living with the bacteria & allowing them to do their job for our digestive system & at the same time prevent them from causing the 2 so-called diseases that plague everybody, gum disease & tooth decay. I’ve come to realize that tooth decay & what we call gum disease aren’t really diseases at all, but our inability to understand the life cycles of oral microbes & how they interact with human oral tissues. …..”16. p. 109 “I was just reading about the complex microbial interactions in the gingival sulcus……” 17 p. 116 “I’m going to have to get another day of work.” “You, working 5 days a week?” 18 p. 121 “Movie stars seemed so real too, emotionally real. They are real people. She’d met so many in dental offices. Movie stars proved themselves as ultimately unsatisfying as a robot lover. Movie stars, being mere human beings, were often boring & stupid, or mean & rude, & like everybody else Pamela met, they didn’t use dental floss every day & often skipped thoroughly brushing their 2nd molars.” 19. p. 126 “This particular Monday held no surprises, just work, work, work. Pamela didn’t talk much at work, a few comments on flossing, 2 suggestions that her patients buy a sonic toothbrush, & she gave everyone 3 samples of sensitivity reducing toothpaste.” 20 p. 135 “You know what’s so nice about American men?” Pamela said. “Americans are the cleanest people on earth. RDHs were invented in American, you know.”…. I bet that’s why you like Sam so much,” Pamela said. “He washes his hands a lot. All DDSs do.” 21 p. 139 “Pamela’s Tuesday seemed odd all morning long. The patients came & went in a pleasant uneventful pace, but nobody in the office had much to say to Pamela in between the patients, when she grabbed a cup of coffee & when she walked a patient to the front desk for a new appointment. At 5 o’clock, the frigid stillness revealed itself, The boss, a pilot-cowboy DDS 15 years younger than Pamela, asked her to come to his private office for a moment. As she tidied her room & brushed on blush & a dab of lipstick, Pamela felt that foreboding she hadn’t felt for several years. DDSs don’t chat with RDHs in the private office unless the news is bad.” Pamela had the job for 14 years. She knew all the patients’ teeth by heart. She & the DDS shared a sustained, obsessive concern for quality work. He had worried when she finished her last Master’s that she’d quit, but success in the art world hadn’t blessed Pamela & her practical nature kept her interest intense & focused on her day job. She knew more about her job & all the science behind it than anybody else on the planet. She knew that. Her boss knew that. She took a deep breath & walked the long hallway to the boss’s private room with the big leather sofa, & the carved mahogany desk inherited from his grandfather, & the painting of the saddle hanging on the side wall, The news could not be good.” “I’ve decided to move my practice in a different direction,” he said..” “After his 5-minute speech, the handwriting was on the wall, in blood, in Pamela’s blood, sweat, tears. He was hiring his girlfriend to take Pamela’s place He let Pamela go. Just like that. No warning. No severance pay. No hard feelings. His girlfriend wanted to work with him. Pamela was out. The girlfriend was in.” 22 p. 140 “She knew what she felt, what she felt at the moment he said his girlfriend wanted her job, what she felt, what she would always feel.” … “She was so good at her job, but her education, experience, skills, tact, graciousness that knack of making anyone feel right at home, that ability to talk to anyone about anything all that didn’t matter, because the girlfriend wanted her job.” 23 p. 141 “She would search the Internet for a new job. She’d email her résumé. She’d have an interview by Thursday. Friday at the latest. Yes, she knew there were over 10,000 unemployed RDHs in California, according to the numbers written into an article of the California Dental Association Journal, June 2011. She had done the math herself, to verify the horror of it all. Why educate more women to do her job when there were so many RDHs out of work Oh yeah, there must be a lot of DDSs’ girlfriends who want jobs.” She would go to her Wednesday dental office job with a big smile on her face as if nothing in the world could be wrong. The fact that her savings would suffer if she didn’t get a job within a week would never enter her mind on Wednesday. …” 24 p. 142 “What happened to her job, to her organized life?” 25. p. 143 “Working only 2 days a week, she would completely run out of savings & every penny she had in the next 16 months.” … “She cranked up her IMac & searched for a new job. In the entire month, in a city of millions of people needing to have their teeth cleaned, there were only 8 job offers listed on the job site the dental hygiene society recommended. She applied to all the jobs, instantly sending her newly edited resume onto the information highway.” 26. p. 144 “The chirpy dental receptionist explained she cold come for a job interview on Friday for a 1-day a week dental hygiene job with what Pamela instantly calculated was a 30% pay cut from what Pamela had been earning for the past 5 years. Pamela frowned, but accepted the interview appointment for Friday morning, 11 a. m.” … “She wanted to wallow in unemployment pity, even though she knew in 2 days a week she earned more than 20% of the population of the United States.” 27. p. 149 “During the 1970’s gasoline crisis, when you had to wait in line to tank up, the DDS she worked for 2 days a week said she wouldn’t get a raise because there was a federal wage freeze in effect. OF course that didn’t apply to that DDS’s little business with 2 employees, & he could have just given Pamela & his receptionist’/assistant occasional little lumps of cash. But no, federal freeze.”…. “Then the downturns in the 1980’s, when jobs dried up & nobody changed jobs, she’d been rear-ended by an uninsured motorist. The concussion was just bad enough to cause debilitating headaches but she only got 3 months disability, & employers didn’t have to give you your job back. So the day she went out sick, she lost her job. Three months later she had difficulty sitting upright for more than 4 hours, so she was fired because she went home sick, once, exactly 1 time.”… “Several times she’d found jobs only to be let go because the DDS went to a cocktail party & met a young RDH who offered to work for 10% less than he was paying Pamela. DDSs are good at counting pennies. They have orgasms when they figure out a way to save a whole buck. After the earthquake, the office building where she worked collapsed, & she had to find a new job because it would be 16 months before her former employer, who owned the rickety old building, could rebuild & start working again. She knew all about getting hew jobs.” 28 p. 150/1 “She wore slacks & a shirt, a blazer & 1 ½ inch plain pumps. You could put on a lab coat & look ready for work. She folded a neat copy of her résumé on fine cotton paper & slipped it into an envelope. Although she’d emailed her résumé, she knew most DDSs lost papers on their messy desks.” … “Pamela drove around the dental building, checking out parking possibilities in case the DDS didn’t offer a parking place to employees.” … “Evaluating the magazines in a dental office tells you more about the DDS & his worldview than even the DDS himself could explain. You can expect the celebrity gossip magazines , a couple of weekly news magazines, at least 2 if not 3 home decorating magazines tells you the DDS is married, any magazines with the work family in the title means his children are still under age 10. You’ll fine The Smithsonian Magazine if he’s generally cheap, because it’s offered at a very low price, so it appeals to the frugal DDS who is trying to hide the fact he’s frugal at the office & only at the office. Everywhere else he spends like a democratic Congress. The DDS will also have his hobbies on display. Golfing magazines or car magazines, hunting magazines, photography magazines indicate that he doesn’t pay his employees enough but keeps all extra profits for his expensive hobbies & the overpowered car he can hardly handle. If he overcharges, the DDS will have luxurious travel magazines, so he can take his profits & flint around the world with his current wife. The worst magazine to find is Fortune Magazine, the very title indicating the DDS is dreaming of or trying to swim in the big pond of big money on the money you pay for your dental cleaning & check-up.” “Pamela gave the fresh copy of her résumé to the receptionist, & sat on the sofa, which was low. Either the DDS had predominantly young patients, because an older person could never sit on that low sofa & then stand without assistance, or the DDS was completely thoughtless about the comforts of older patients, who need to sit in firm chairs with arm rests so they can easily stand when their name is called.;” … “When the DDS stepped into his reception room looking for the RDH he was about to interview, all he heard was the door of his office slamming shut, the DDS called to his receptionist. “Betty,” he said. “Where is the RDH I’m supposed to be interviewing?” 29. p. 152 “Betty came out from the back office holding a big juicy sandwich, a bite of which she was still chewing as she spoke. “She was here a minute ago, doctor.” Betty said. “Maybe she had to leave. You kept her waiting for almost ½ hour.” Betty was often annoyed because the old goat ran late every day.” “Oh well, the DDS said. “Maybe she’ll call back.” 30. p. 172 “Her day job was work to help other people, 1 of the helping professions, with the most basic of human needs, health care of the human body itself.” 31. p. 173 “She hadn’t had a Tuesday free from work for decades. She worried about finding a new job,..”32. p. 180 “No, wait,” Sam said. “Don’t tell me. I know, I may be only an oral surgeon, which makes me a top-dog DDS, but only a DDS nonetheless, not a real doctor, but a man doesn’t need to be a gynecologist to know, no champagne at a Sunday brunch means you’re on antibiotics or you’re pregnant.” 33. “She ironed a lab coat for work.” … “Maybe she should iron another lab coat. She should check the Internet for dental hygiene jobs. She needed a better job.’ 34. p. 221 “After her shower & before she left for work, she emailed 6 résumés for dental hygiene jobs & patched together a minimalist curriculum vitae that she attached to her resume & electronically dashed off to that bachelor’s degree dental hygiene program in the boondocks of northern CA, not the 1 in SF, for a full-time tenured teaching position.” 35. p. 248 “Did you tell them at your job that you’re leaving?” Henry asked. “Yes, I did,” Pamela said. “The DDS is happy thinking he can hire a young worker for less money.” 36. p. 249 “I work at a job that has never paid me enough money to be able to do everything I want to do. It’s not fun. It’s not a fun job. And it’s not fun never having enough money to do anything but keep on keeping on.” 37. p. 251 “Pamela left her job with no fanfare. She never worked the last Thursday she planned to work Her DDS boss found that fabulous new employee, a young RDH who would work for 50$ a day less, hurray, she her hired her & told Pamela she didn’t have to bother coming in for that last day. Dr. Jackass mailed Pamela her final paycheck 2 weeks later. The only task left, to close her old apartment ^ bring her things to the new house, that 1 last task, lay before Pamela, like that root canal appointment you keep intending to make, & the tooth hurts a little, but you keep putting off calling for the appointment. “ 38. p. 263 “L.A. isn’t just Hollywood. L.A. has rocket scientists galore, doctors, DDSs, thousands of engineers, 2 major universities within the city limits.” 39. p. 267 “During surgery, during diagnosis, he performed at his very best ability, but his wife’s pregnancy would proceed to its outcome without any more work or proficiency or ability from him” 40. 275 “Pamela noticed they had varying degrees of gum inflammation & some had obvious tooth decay. They need teeth cleaning. They needed better dental care & better preventive dental home care. She didn’t say anything to Henry about all the incipient oral disease or outright dental disease she saw all around her. But she couldn’t help thinking about it & thinking about what to do about it.” 41. p 278 “I’m not getting another job in a dental office. No way. But you know that book I wrote about gum disease, I’ve got to get that published. Henry, in the past months, as we’ve been traveling, all around us, I see gum disease & unfilled tooth decay everywhere, in every country, even in Hawaii. The world is not getting healthier. I still want to make the world healthier. I’ve got to work on that. I was thinking I could send the book to 1 of my former professors from dental school. She has a dental hygiene journal. Maybe she would want to publish some of my writings.”… “I have to make the world just a little bit better, or at least the teeth & gums of as many people as possible, a little bit better, a little bit healthier.” 42. p. 279 “And I protected his dental health at the same time,” Henry said.”

Austin wrote in response to my questions:[[I wanted to write a proper letter to you to answer the questions you asked about I LOVE MY ROBOT. I want to give you thoughtful answers instead of dashing off an email.]] After she answered me when I asked some other questions, she added “I hope my last email didn't sound too pessimistic.”]]

[[“I still practice dental hygiene, only 3days a week, which is not enough money to live on, because at my age I can’t even get an interview for a dental hygiene job. But I’d rather practice dental hygiene forever, living from paycheck to paycheck, than be married to a fat, out-of-shape rich dud of a dude.”

I Love My Robot is somewhat a "cozy romance (which I called it)."I consider it subversive feminist literature because it seems like a funny & romantic story, but it's really a rant about the many facets of the double standard that still exist. It's about our relationship to technology: if we can get technology to give us what we need, we are willing to forego human interaction. Yet as you read, you simply have a good time. It's fun to read, but it has these underlying, serious themes.

Some of this is tossed out & not hammered at the reader, for example, the women scientists create several types of robots, until their final accomplishment of a realistic robotic man, yet they don't work in the prestigious robotics department, where the men have only been able to create a realistic cat. The scientists even chat about making robots, if you want to know what makes a great man robot, ask a woman. In other fiction where robots appear, they are often big & more powerful than real men, fiction robots always seem to what to take over the world.

In early 2007, over a bottle of California cabernet in my very nice Beverly Hills apartment, the idea for the novel came to me when my friend & neighbor asked me why I had quit dating. Austin said “because the men who asked me out were chubby, paunchy middle-aged self-obsessed sexists. Although they earned more money than they could ever spend & had accomplished much with their lives, their only real interest had become eating in the presence of a beautiful woman who would flutter around with an enduring smile of her face telling him how great he was.” Austin told her “she wanted a man who would come over with groceries, fix dinner for me, make love to me or not, my choice, & clean the kitchen before he left. Wouldn’t it me nice if you could pick which man would come over & do that, say, your favorite movie star, or some important man you might see in a restaurant. After my friend left, I wrote a brief part of a short story, making the man man-made, a robot instead of a real man, because a robot could be so much cleaner.

After graduating from the USC School of Cinema with my Master’s in Screenwriting (my first Master’s is in Higher Education, teaching on the university level, also from USC, so I could teach dental hygiene if I wanted), since I was no longer dating, I spent my spare time writing. I wrote seven screenplays & lots of short stories, but I could never find a way to get my work made into a movie.

Although I could not get published, even though I tried every year since I wrote my 1st essay a year after graduating from USC Dental School with my BSDH, I have always kept writing. I write all the time, non-fiction as well as screenplays & stories. I wrote the novel I LOVE MY ROBOT while I was waiting to hear from the US Patent Office about my dental hygiene research. I posted the book on Amazon through Createspace while I waited to hear from the Verizon Powerful Answers competition about my dental research.

In I LOVE MY ROBOT I decided to write every complaint I have about sexism both in dating & in dental hygiene. Married women don’t experience the 2nd class treatment women receive in the same way single women do, because we single women are out in the world all alone, with any protection from any man. I’m also a comedy writer, & I knew if I wrote my observations in the context of romantic comedy, men & women would be willing to read my complaints & find them true & palatable. Nobody wants to read a tirade about how badly women are treated. I consider I LOVE MY ROBOT to be feminist literature. It’s a fun read, but the women forge ahead even though they aren’t given the privileges of men:

In the story, The women scientists don’t work in the big robotics department, yet they build a human-like robot when the men have only come up with a robotic cat that does only a few things a real cat does. After all, the Gie does what a man could do, & should do, but doesn’t do. The men in the story all drive big cars, the women drive economical cars. The men all make more money than the women, but an alternative title I considered was “Women Decide” because in the end, they do.

I wanted to write about real people who live in L A, not just movie stars & spoiled brats. I made the main character a RDH because it’s an ordinary woman’s job. Fiction often deals with women who have fantasy jobs & earn so much money, they live their fictive lives with privileges most of us don’t ever get. As a RDH my main character has a limited income & limited time. She lives how most women live, with limited resources & real responsibilities. She’s tired when she comes home from work, but she works to make the world a better place, to make people healthy.

I also think people don’t understand dental hygiene as a profession & we RDHs can use all the good publicity we can get. Our profession is very important & should not be destroyed because of the greed of DDSs, as it is being belittled, demeaned, & destroyed every day. My voice as a writer is to tell the truth about the fine work RDHs can do. My next book, it’s almost finished. It’s called: etc, everybody’s teeth cleaner. It’s a nonfiction textbook.

So, I came up with the idea of the robots, & wrote the book as my personal rant about sexism & the poor treatment I’ve received as a health care provider.

I also like the theme that the characters make love before they get to know each other. My favorite line from the book is: You made love to a man you’ve never met. I wrote about that in one of my screenplays too, about 2 characters who make love, & then meet, under completely different circumstances than the robot book.

The story is really Henry’s story. He’s the main character. He’s one of those highly accomplished men who are so clueless they don’t even understand why their 1st wives left them. Henry comes to realize he has to pay attention to Pamela in order to fall in love with her. He needs to get to know her to be able to love her as she needs to be loved.

When Pamela, RDH, explains the true interpretation of Cinderella to Henry, he can only think about it. As the story goes on, he starts to see that he is the prince, but there is more to Cinderella than he realized.

The overall theme of this book is: we are what we do. Both Henry & Pamela work to make the world a better place, & they come to see that together than can accomplish more than they could as 2 separate individuals. Pamela makes it clear to Henry that he has to do things to show her he’s interested in her, not merely ask her to adore him.

I made Sam an oral surgeon because Jennifer’s father is a physician, & I didn’t want her to marry her father. In fiction, physicians enjoy very high status as they do in real life. I wanted Sam to be in a helping profession without the automatic status physician’s get. And I wanted Sam to be free of the complications of his health care job, no midnight emergency calls, no patients dying of cancer. I’ve known some wonderful guys who were oral surgeons. They know who they are, they aren’t at all pretentious, yet they have great ability to help people achieve health. I wanted to Sam to have those qualities, & I wanted Jennifer to marry someone not in the entertainment business where she works.

My next book, etc, dovetails with this work of fiction. I began doing dental hygiene scientific research several years ago. The first night Henry and Pamela spend together, as she talks about gum disease, she’s describing my next book.

The scene where Henry comes to Pamela’s pretending to be a robot is my favorite because it shows us Henry as a man’s man, a real man, the kind of man women want, a take charge kind of man who goes & gets what he wants, & in this case, it happens to be to get to know Pamela, & by the way, he just happens to enjoy a night of uninhibited, satisfying sex without any preliminaries or implied promises. It is 100% fun for both of them.

Robotics is to the upcoming generation what computers were to the older generation. Love stories about robots are always the robot wanting to become real, as in Blade Runner & AI. My robots are just machines, tools. And all the women in I Love My Robot come to see that using a fine machine simply changes your mind about what you really want. My story is a humanist story, where the ideal is to be an understanding human being in relationship to other human beings.]]

DEADLY POLITICS—Maggie Sefton—VOTING TIDBIT: “Well, Peter, it’s been grand. I can’t tell you when I’ve had this much fun. Although my last root canal comes to mind.”

A BREW TO KILL-Cleo Coyle =DRINKING TIDBITS:1.“…but it was also filled with brilliant oddballs: young artists & poets, musicians & painters, comedians & playwrights, none of whom could afford designer sandals, spa memberships, teeth whitening, & nose jobs.” 2. “I had a Smile Train fund-raising event that night, & Dom didn’t want to disappoint me..” “The Smile Train was such a worthy charity. I spoke to them a little more & discovered Gwen donated her plastic surgery skills to the cause.” 3. “But Gwen is a Smile Train fund-raiser, boss!” Dante cried.” 4. “He found the Smile Train website, downloaded photos of Gwen & used his 3D sculpting software & artistic talents to make a lifelike mask of her.”

GONE GIRL –Gillian Flynn =The wife disappears, she has an agenda, & the husband is looked upon as the possible suspect. The story starts with before her disappearance and goes on after.

COME BACK TIDBITS: 1. “There’s a bowler & jazz hands & lots of teeth.” 2. “Rand with his toothy prehistoric-monster-fish smile.” 3. “Boney pointed at the wedding portrait on the wall: me in my tux, a block of teeth frozen on my face…” 4. “had a housewife, nice lady, get a tooth knocked out last month over some OxyContin,’ Boney prompter.” 5. “I thought Amy’s calendar, the 1 that went 3 years into the future, & if you looked a year ahead, you would actually find appointments: dermatologist, DDS, vet.” 6. “Stuck’s face was sunburned; I could feel the heat coming off him as he leaned in closer, giving me a blast of Listerine & chaw.” 7. “Stucks grinned his row of chipped teeth at me.” 8. “And I wanted to kiss her then, the way I had that very 1st time: our teeth bumping,…” 9. p. “The 2 of us cheek to cheek, beaming pearly whites.” 10. “Tanner crossed a leg, exposed his bottom row of teeth,…” 11. p “..floss between my teeth…” 12. p “Toss in my travel toothbrush,..” 13 “then she pushes me against the wall, my head banging, my teeth coming down on the tip of my tongue.” 14. “..& I know I will peek up & see either a crooked-toothed, sweet-talking serial killer (wouldn’t it be ironic, for me to actually be murdered?)..”

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