User blog comment:Doctor Ibrahim/Ask the Doc and his Family!/@comment-25808351-20170424001125/@comment-28358106-20170427030751

"Oh, that's easy for YOU to say," Thomas says sullenly. "You climb mountains with cannons strapped to your back for fun. Me? I look at Regina, and my heart races.  I look at Tirush, and my knees get weak.  Just the thought of the two of them together..."

He pauses, then shrugs. "That's it, then. At the age of thirty-four, I'll be dead of a heart attack.  Just, poof.  No more Thomas." He makes a flinging gesture with his hand. "I'll disappear in a puff of euphoria. I won't even have time to smile." He shakes his head. "It's not just that, though. It's what she said when she..."

He stops and looks over. "Wait, you read what now? Regina's what?  What did you read?"