Chapter 14

Abstract

“Dr. Wilson, there’s a Professor Julie Ludlow here to see you, from the University of Pretoria, South Africa.”

Grant, lost in his thoughts of Jennifer while gazing at her photograph, was oblivious to his administrative assistant’s presence. His workspace was cluttered with dozens of photographs of Jennifer and Hamlie, including a large portrait of the three of them on one wall. A photo of Grant and Jason Zirkoff on graduation day at the Air Force Academy, both dashingly dressed in their parade blue uniforms, sat on top of a bookcase. The two new “butter bar” lieutenants were tossing their hats into the air just as the Thunderbirds aerial demonstration team zoomed overhead.