-(rather than the narratively-convenient reconstruction of an eight-and-change-year-old memory and a Diary entry from the Monday after), so that I could pencil in corrections of
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-A blonde woman wearing a red dress and black high heels stuck out among the predominantly male throng of geeks.
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-casually referred to my desire for social dominance.
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-I stammered out a shocked and perhaps unconvincing denial.