"Give the guy a break, he's clearly had his mind warped by circumstances."
"And you?"
"Me?"
"Yeah -- was your mind warped by circumstances?"
I held Ange out at arm's length and looked her up and down and up and down. I held her cheeks and stared through her thick-framed glasses into her big, mischievous tilted eyes. I ran my fingers through her hair.
"Ange, I've never thought more clearly in my whole life."
She kissed me then, and I kissed her back, and it was some time before we went out for that burrito.
Afterword by Bruce Schneier
I'm a security technologist. My job is making people secure.
I think about security systems and how to break them. Then, how to make them more secure. Computer security systems. Surveillance systems. Airplane security systems and voting machines and RFID chips and everything else.