8/25/06 chapter cleaned up again. Arg always finding typos!

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"Hello, Charles. Where are you off to in such hurry," Larry said.

"Hey Larry. I'm meeting Amita. We're attending a lecture over at Dabney and as usual, I'm running late."

"Uh, Charles, another math date?"

Charlie shook his head and replied, "Not this time. Do you want to join us? We're also going to do lunch."

"What is the topic?"

"I think Amita said the topic was called Math can be found in the world's greatest works of art'"

Sounds stimulating."

"Great let's go over."

They found Amita at the back of the hall. "Hey Charlie. Hey Larry. Let's go get some seats. I think they're ready to begin." The threesome filed down the hall and took some seats in the center, front row. Charlie took a look at the program that was provided to him about the speaker.

Dean Waters stepped up to the podium. "Welcome colleagues and students. Today CalSci has the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Giada Conti. She is here to a do a lecture followed by a Q and A session on "Math can be found in the world's greatest works of art."

"Please give her a warm welcome and now with out further adieu, Dr. Conti."

A slim, dark haired woman stepped up to the podium. Her eyes glittered with excitement, and her smile radiated warmth to the crowd. The audience applauded their guest, and she nodded her head in thanks.

Charlie looked at the woman in stunned surprise and said, "It couldn't be her?"

Amita looked at Charlie and said," What's that Charlie?"

"I know her."

"You know Dr Conti?"

"I met her back when I was at Princeton. I thought the name sounded familiar." He gestured to the program. "I'll fill you in after the lecture."

"Thank you, Dean Waters, for the warm welcome. It is my pleasure to be here at CalSci, standing in front of so many brilliant minds. I hope you'll enjoy the following lecture on Art and Math. You may be wondering how these two genres are related. I say not only are they related; they are two of the purest forms of expression."

The lights went out in the hall, and a slide by Leonard Da Vinci was displayed.

The lecture ended, and Charlie waited to say hello to an old friend.

Amita looked to Charlie and said, "So, you said you knew Dr. Conti?"

"Yes, from when I was a senior at Princeton. My mother was worried about my social skills, and made me join this club that gets 'gifted' teens together for academic and leisure activities. It actually ended up being a lot of fun. We did activities with students from Upenn & Columbia on a monthly basis. I met Giada and her twin brother Giovanni at the September activity. I just remember clicking with them immediately. They are the same age as I am, and I never felt strange in their presence. If I remember correctly, they were freshman, at the time and constantly played practical jokes on each other." Charlie also recalled being a little jealous of the siblings' closeness, and their need to help each other. "The two of them were very likeable back then, and they were a lot of fun. I didn't have to pretend I wasn't smart around them. Jonny used to call us his 'brain posse'." Charlie smiled at the memory of the good times he had that year. "Our little group consisted of the three of us, and two other students named Jade and Newton." He chuckled to himself when he remembered all the silly things the five of them had gotten into that year.

Giada has finished talking to the dean and a student, when she spied Charlie.

"Charles Eppes?"

Charlie smiled at his old friend. "Hi Gia"

"Oh my gawd, it is you." The two old friends hugged as if no time had come between them. "How have you been? It's been ages. What are you up to? I can't believe it's you. I so have to call my brother."

Charlie laughed as he recalled that Gia had a tendency to talk very fast.

Even faster then he did. "I'm fine, and I'm a professor here at CalSci."

"Really? That's wonderful. I'm so happy to hear that. I remember that it was a goal for you to become a professor."

"You seem to be doing quite well, yourself. "

Gia laughed. "I like to think that I am doing well."

Larry and Amita stood there waiting to be introduced but as usual, Charlie was in his own world and forgot what he had planned on doing. Gia realized this and turned to the man and woman with Charlie and said, "Hi, I'm Gia Conti. Are you friends of Charlie's?"

Charlie snapped out of his reverie and smiled sheepishly. "Sorry. Let me introduce you to Larry Fleinhardt and Amita Ramajuan they're my friends and colleagues here at Calsci."

"Pleasure to meet you Larry and Amita."

Charlie looked to his friend and said, "Hey Gia, do you think you can join us for lunch? We were just going to head over to the cafeteria"

Gia smiled. "Yum cafeteria food. You know how to welcome a girl," she said to Charlie and winked. "That sounds great. Let me just get my stuff together."

The foursome sat at the table and chatted. Larry and Amita laughed over the silly stories that Gia and Charlie are telling about that year.

"I thought Jade and you were going to kills us after we had the bucket of slime fall on you"

Gia rolled her eyes. "You were so lucky your mom and mine intervened cause Jade and I were going to commit justifiable homicide on the three of you."

Amita and Larry laughed at the image of Gia and the other student standing in their best dresses with green slime dripping off of them.

Charlie laughed. "I know we had to promise our mothers that there would be no more practical jokes."

"Speaking of mothers, how is yours? She was always so nice to me and my brother."

Charlie's eyes turned sad and wistful as he said, "Um, my mother passed away a few years ago."

Gia's smile faltered. "Oh god Charlie, I am so sorry. I didn't know." She took his hand and squeezed it for comfort. "She was a really great lady and it was a pleasure to know her."

Charlie mumbled, "Thanks, she thought the world of you and your brother."

The four of them sat in silence for a moment. Gia worried about the sadness in her friend's eyes and looked to Larry and Amita for help. They also had the same look on their faces.

"Tell me, how did you two become friends with the illustrious Dr. Eppes?" Gia's gaze shifted between Larry and Amita.

Charlie realized that his friend was trying to move the subject away from his mother's death to make him feel better. He laughed as she regarded him as 'the illustrious Dr. Eppes'.