"On this particular occasion--it was about three years ago, 'cause I was still a student at Cooper Union--it was a group of people, Bucky's friends from his job and a few people I went to school with, and Bucky brought along a friend of his girlfriend at the time, this pretty little thing called Alice, specifically for me to meet. And she actually seemed to like me, though we didn't talk much.

"So when Bucky said, 'Let's go on the Cyclone,' I wanted to impress her and said I'd go too."