"He doesn't tell me your secrets," David laughs. "It's just that he's one of the very small number of people in the world who can teach me the special brand of patience once needs to date someone of a certain power set."

How, one has to wonder, are you ever enough for someone who lives in the world far faster than you can? One that is so used to not having someone there for them? Maybe the story is different, but there is enough in common between Tommy and Jean-Paul that it had been helpful.

"I'm not trying to get anywhere at the moment, so it's not very useful."