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I surveyed the ood here?"
"Not much All the seafood is frozen and the chowder co every tinon, medium rare, with a baked potato, tossed salad with bleu cheese, and apple pie for dessert If you have two martinis up front, you’ll think it’s the fourth best meal you ever ate Up from that is any quarter pounder with cheese"
I s, a hitherto unsuspected aspect of his personality "You’re joining me, I hope"
"Thanks I’d like that I hate to eat alone"
"Me, too"
The waitress appeared and we ordered drinks I confess I was curing ue with a martini on the rocks, but it was quick and efficient and I enjoyed every minute of it While we talked, I did a covert assesse as you get to know them The first flash is probably the oes a transforht Shales, there seeed in a fifty-five-year-old shell His hidden self was beco more visible to me as he talked
I listened with both eyes and one ear, trying to discern as really going on Ostensibly, ere discussing hoe spent our leisure ti, while I tended to aed California Penal Code and textbooks on auto theft While his mouth made noises about an assault of ticks on a recent day hike, his eyes said so else I disconnectedup his code This e
A chunk of lettuce dropped off my fork and my mouth closed on the bare tines Ever the sophisticate I tried to act as though I preferred to eat ed the tenor of the conversation, curious ould happen if we talked about so personal "What happened to your wife? I take it she died"
"Multiple sclerosis She went into reht up with her
Twenty years of that shit Toward the end, she couldn’t do anything for herself She was luckier than most, if you want to look at it that way Some patients are rapidly incapacitated, but Karen wasn’t in a wheelchair until the last sixteen ed "It was So periods synosed early on She’d been plagued bya local chiropractor for what she thought was gout Of course, once he got hold of her, he etting real help Class three subluxation That’s what he said it was I should have sued his ass off, but what’s the point?"
"She wasn’t a patient of Dr Dunne’s, by any chance?"
He shook his head "I finally forced her to see an internist in town and he referred her to UCLA for a workup I guess it didn’t s probably would have come out the same, either way She handled it much better than I did, that’s for sure"