Lots of women dated younger men Movie stars did it. Singers and soap opera sirens did it. But could Pam Sullivan, a thirty-year-old Dallas caterer and mother of two small boys, do it? Joel Bynum was "that nice young man at the supermarket." A college kid, for heaven's sake. His persistence flattered Pam. His affection for her children went straight to her heart. But Pam was too smart and too scared to throw caution to the winds, accept a date with Joel and blithely expect love to conquer all.