While working at the ASPR, and the increasingly complicated situations to develop there, she and I never had even one conflict or fight. We merely sat down and talked things out in an orderly fashion. I had to work very hard and behave myself as well as I could in order to earn her friendship -- which I did, and I shall die very much honored in this. Chapter 19 A "COMMUNICATION" FROM THE HARD DRIVE FACULTIES OF OUR SPECIES -- DECEMBER 30, 1971 -- Between December 8 and December 30, additional long-distance remote viewing experiments had been tried, yielding a rather high rate of success -- more so than the OOB practice sessions had, although these too were improving. But the result of the OOB experiment on December 30 was to blow me away. Why this was so, needs to be explained. Somewhere inside my mental processes lurked a thing -- a thing of some kind of skepticism.