Mira was named for a binary sun and she was binary, in more ways than one.
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Though I was considerably older than her 31 years, I had always wondered if Alexandra was attracted to me. When she asked to meet me privately, at a quiet coffee shop, I knew the answer. True, she was also to meet the other members of the creative writing group on an individual basis, eight of us, in all. But as for my session, I believed there was an ulterior motive, a motive beyond her assisting me in my pursuit of becoming a passable fiction writer.