It was several weeks after Tyler showed up in the office. My fantasy love affair with him was raging whenever I was alone at home. Tyler and I had sat across from each other at lunch in the cafeteria a few times, sometimes with the others but sometimes not. It was at one of those lunches that I could no longer hold it in. I told him, "You know I had a terrible crush on you in high school." "I'm sorry. It never occurred to...