"Honey, you don’t have to go back to them. You know? You don’t have to go back to the war, honey. You can stay right here and live with me. Derek, you hate that kind of work. Security work is ugly, dirty work. Sweetheart, maybe I didn’t say this before but . . . things are going really well for me up here. In most campuses, the astronomy people are looking at those awful new budget problems. Nobody’s ever seen it that bad . . . But up here, I have only one problem. I have no Derek Vandeveer."