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I looked at ht and I eating inall over the damn place I could have closed the s and used the AC, but that would have been a dead giveaway A car parked along a residential street with the engine running--IUP TO NO GOOD AS it was, I was surprised the good folks in Mahtomedi weren’t more observant I was surprised someone hadn’t already called the cops I was surprised that the cops weren’t shining their bright lights insidethat I state irlfriend"
Yeah, that would go over big
What the hell are you doing here? my inner voice wanted to know
Just curious, I told it
What else?
Angry, excited, afraid, jealous, guilty, hopeful
Hopeful?
Especially hopeful, although hopeful for what I couldn’t say I had been parked down the street from Nina’s home for the better part of two hours, and I couldn’t explain uess I just wanted to see it for myself--Nina with another man I could believe it if I saw it for myself
What good would that do?
My God, you ask a lot of questions
I looked atdoes it take to eat dinner, anyway?
I turned on my radio and hit the scan button until it stopped at 893 FM, the Current, Minnesota Public Radio’s new alternative rock station Some people have labeled it the radio station for music connoisseurs, and it certainly is that The first hour I listened to it I heard Otis Redding, Chet Baker, Johnny Cash, the Jayhawks, Little Eva, Blind Willie Johnson, the Byrds, Chaka Khan, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and five bands that were new to h I ood as its selections usually are, so awfulness that I figure the DJI could only describe as Pakistani hip-hop
I switched off the radio
Where in hell was Nina? Didn‘t she knohat tih-end Beamer captured my attention as it turned onto the street where Nina lived I watched as it inched forward and turned into Nina’s driveway Its engine itched off and its headlained what a couple could be doing in a parked car for fivewheel Finally, the driver’s door opened A man slipped out of the car--Daniel the architect, if Jenness’s description held true He e told me that he was disappointed Nina didn’t wait for hiirl, Nina