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I’h A beer now and then is about as adventurous as I get

Light beer, of course Hey, a girl’s gotta watch her figure

"How you feelin’ about all this white stuff that’s supposed to fall fro dealers, an affable guy naie, steps away from his compatriots to ask me, with courtly solicitude

"Better’n the white stuff you and your scurowl God, what is wrong with ues It doesn’t pay to antagonize your local dealer

But ordinarily, I have not just been called fat byhurt "There is no call to be offensive"

He’s so right It’s wrong to call Reggie and his friends scued men who toil away for the tobacco industry as senators

"I’ht It’s just that for nine ht outsideyou no What do you think is going to happen? I’ht? Gi toward the thick gray clouds overhead "I am a business wo period in her life and could probably use a little pick-e her business?"

And, to illustrate his ie takes a copy of the New York Post he’s kept tucked under his are There, in two-inch letters, screaain, over a black-and-white photo of ain bride-to-be, pop princess Tania Trace

"Reggie," I say, after taking a restorative sip of my café mocha But only because I’m so cold I don’t actually want it anymore, because it’s covered with the taint of Barista Boy Well, ood for you I mean, it’s dairy And dairy’s an important part of a well-balanced breakfast "Do you really think I sit around all day fantasizing about getting back together withcould be further fro about getting together with my ex’s brother, who continues to remain stubbornly i dealer needs to know this

"My apologies, Heather," Reggie says, refolding the paper "I just thought you’d want to know Thisis still scheduled to go on in St Patrick’s Cathedral, with the reception at the Plaza this Saturday"

I goggle at hiie looks mildly affronted "I check the weather, like any New Yorker, before I leave for work"