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No, Mom. Not because of a guy code. Ben wouldn't care if I dated her.

As soon as she sat down, I made a decision in my mind: I was not going to let our conversation conform to the stilted style that protocol would dictate. I decided to be funny, to be jokey. She connected immediately—she joked right back.

If true, that means he deliberately risked American and French lives, and maybe the battle, in order to get in solid with Lafayette.