He was used to having lots of friends, many of them women. And he'd dated his share of both well-adjusted and troubled girls. His most recent relationship had run its course. Allison wanted to stay in Vermont, and be a schoolteacher. He wanted to move to Toronto and study to become a professor. After two years of a long distance relationship, it was not meant to be. But there was no malice-no slashing of tires or burning of photographs. They were friends, even, and Paul was proud of that fact.