“The blood is the life” – Bram Stoker -- There is a joke that goes: what did the lesbian vampire say to her lover? Well, here’s the answer. I owe you so many answers, and to give you what you deserve, I have to go back to the start. I meet the Stranger years before I find you.  He is the only man who has come close to evoking a stab of attraction. Until I see him standing in a dark nook of the club, a point of stillness i...