Alice sat in the audience watching Dana and three other anchors discuss women’s sport news for the week. The show was slightly scripted but more ad-lib with a live audience for crowd reaction. Dana was doing great; she was one of two women, the other being a famous straight female basketball player. The other two anchors were men of course. Dana really cracked the crowd up when one of the men commented on the hotness of one of the players and Dana agreed without even thinking about what she was saying. The reaction from the two men and the crowd had her squirming, but it played well with the audience and the cameras. Alice had to snicker herself at Dana goofiness, knowing this was one of her charms and the reason so many people loved her.

After the taping the producer walked up to her and told her if this taping was any indication of her on screen personality she was a shoe in for a permanent anchor spot, the audience loved her. Dana walked over to Alice and hugged her not caring who witnessed the show of affection. “Did you hear that Al, I thought I was a total dork, but everyone seemed to like it?” Alice reached up and kissed Dana on the cheek. “You are a dork, but you’re a damn cute dork. Of course they loved you.”

As the two exited the studio there was a nice sized mob waiting for Dana. Some were old tennis fans who had heard she was going to be there wanting autographs and some were new fans for the audience wanting the same. While she spoke with the fans and signed autographs she noticed that Alice did what Alice always did she slowly back away giving Dana space with her fans. She knew in the past this was Alice’s way of letting Dana feel not so smothered by her, but that was not what she wanted at the present time. So even though she wasn’t ignoring her fans she made a point of walking toward Alice and taking her hand for her to stand beside her as she addressed her fans. She no longer wanted to be known as single and *****; she wanted to be known as commented and *****. And she wanted everyone to know the person she was commented to was Alice.