She wanted to be near him for his quiet ways, his interesting lunches of cold pap and gravy, which he ate with his fingers and his unroaming eyes.

I vote for #3. These guys probably also spamvertise G*e*n*e*r*i*c V*i*a*g*r*a and P*e*n*i*S P*i*l*l*S. They're scum.

a cycle or set of leaves

Eigen representations have become one of the most popular techniques in pattern recognition (e.g. face recognition) because of its strong discriminative ability. Eagle and Pentland proposed using the so-called eigenbehavior to measure the distance between people, which is then used for the construction of a social network.