I have given this a fair amount of thought too. Most everyone here thinks she could not or would not have had any interest in JLM. Let me just throw out a couple of thoughts. IF they had met before, in real time or online, and they were in the earliest stages of feeling each other out, completely drug-unrelated, I doubt very seriously that he would have told her that he was kicked out of two universities. He very well may have told her that he had graduated from one, perhaps even UVA. He most likely would have told her that he worked at UVA Med Center, but probably wouldn't tell her his duties were basically pushing beds and wheelchairs around. He may have told her he had a far more skilled job, anesthesiologist, nurse, etc. He probably knows enough medical lingo to pull it off in just a breaking the surface chat. As to having nothing in common, she was athletic and he had been a very good athlete in earlier years. I'm sure he probably would have told her about his football and wrestling prowess. Working in a university environment and living in a college town, I would think he was able to interact with college age kids rather easily. If the main reason that people feel she would never have anything to do with him is because she is 18 and he is 32, I would just say that he may have told her he was 25 or 26 or whatever, and honestly, his age may not have mattered if she was interested otherwise. She could have even been flattered that a 'slightly' older guy was interested in her. And to the other reason, which no one wants to mention, is that they are of different races, I would just point out that this isn't the 1950s anymore, even in a southern state. All of this, as usual, is JMO.
