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“That’s right. I’m a self-made man.” Howard allowed the tension in is shoulders to slide away. “Not that it was too difficult.”
She laughed. “No, I imagine you don’t find much to be very difficult. A genius such as you are…”
Howard grinned at her. “I knew you understood me. What about you? What about your family?”
“My father was in steel until he retired a few years ago. The less said about my mother, the better.”
There was a story there, but Howard understood the desire to keep family secrets... secret. “Ah. Steel, huh? He must have made a fortune during the war.”












