Impossible Alone

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The most powerful person in the Solar System cadged a drink off me.

“Simon!” I said. Even on a low budget myself I willingly pulled out a ten to cover the next round. “What’s it been, sixteen, seventeen years?”

“That many?”

“You skipped that last cluster reunion.”

We graduated a year apart in the late nineties from Beloit, me with a degree in biochemistry that led to cell work on amphibians, he with a combined degree in physics and chemistry that led him on a zig-zag course after several higher degrees from MIT: first a NASA lackey, second a consultant for several top contractors, and then head of one of the largest aerospace companies on the globe, Kunz, with reputedly as many assets in Russia and China as in the U.S.

He nodded acquiescence. “So I did.”

“So what’s up for the trillionaire these days?” I hatched in my head a dozen leading questions—not that I wanted to take advantage of an old friend, but out of honest curiosity—I think it was honest—as to whether Kunz Corp had a philanthropic arm that would help fund my area of research.

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