Chapter i^2
“You are not that old. We are the same age. Are you saying I am old too?” Thalia asked with a mind-your-words look on her face.
Yanni opened his arms in an apologetic gesture and replied, “No, of course not. I’m talking about academic age. About ideas. I just don’t feel that snappy anymore.”
Thalia thought about the situation seriously, cradling the baby who was cutely asleep. “Yanni, just take it as far as you can carry it. Maybe it needs to be passed on to the next torchbearer. Whom you will teach and bring to the finish line. Is that such a bad thing?”
“Ugh. It’s my idea honey. I’ve worked so many years on it, I would hate to see it go to someone else,” Yanni said, not really talking to anyone but himself.
Thalia walked in front of him to pay attention and said, “Yanni.
