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"Give it a try"
"I don’t like jazz or baseball or whiskey or beer, and I’ve never been to the ballet I’m a lousy cook I don’t read much that’s not business related I think everybody should save their etof a beautiful friendship, Josie" To prove it I clinked her glass with my beer bottle
We sat at the bar and watched the Twins I nursed the Sarin--hey, I had work to do--while Josie had multiple vodka Collinses Possibly the drinks loosened her up, because she turned out to be a pleasant companion despite her refusal to accept the sacrifice bunt as a sound baseball strategy "Why would you deliberatelyI quietly announced I needed fresh air I returned a few minutes later and informed her that that the third truck had yet to return
"How long should ait?" she asked
"Until all of the trucks are inside and the place is locked up tight, probably soht"
"That sounds fanciful"
"My dad, when I was a kid, he would warn that nothing good ever happened after ht The dark side, he called it--stay away from the dark side I was a Star Wars fan Itof the dark side"
I followed Josie’s gaze to a wo at the front entrance She stood alone, a woazes fro in the awareness like a solar panel--it seeth of the bar She expected the audience to follow her, expected to be gawked at
"Hey, Josie," she said when she reached us Her short skirt slid up to there when she hoisted herself onto a stool and crossed her legs Her legs were entleentleman "Seen Brian?"
"It’s not my turn to watch him," Josie answered There was a chill in her voice that I had not heard before
"I thought he’d be around," the woman said She motioned for the bartender, ordered a beer, and asked that he pour it in a glass At the sa
"No s," the bartender said
"Shit," the woht?" Josie asked
"I was, but the place is pretty dead, so I only did one show"
Up close I could see that the woe brown eyes that looked a little sad, the way that all large brown eyes do, and that her strawberry hair was tinged with gray at the roots Her sy from tobacco
"You’re Dyson, aren’t you?" she said