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“Me too”

“The first tiht he was hot shit because his parents had a VCR and a big TV, and his dad went to Shreveport twice a week for his job and brought back movies from Blockbuster I was so jealous of him”

“When was this?”

“I was probably in the second grade, so it must have been around 1997” I frowned and asked, “Why are you grinning like that?”

“I was inyou are”

“I’ thirty this year”

“Exactly”

My frown deepened “I wasn’tI’ anymore”

“Sure you are”

He returned to the couch with a reed the subject with, “Would you like a drink? My bar’s pretty well-stocked, and there’s diet soda in the ht takeout containers, so I hope you’ll help ht”

“I’ve got the drinks covered” Lorenzo produced two half-size bottles of Prosecco from the cardboard box and tucked his feet under hiht besideWe’d watched ether many times, but the proximity was new and welcome

As the opening scenes played, I letit aside, and he snacked on some appetizers I’d seen the file to recite the dialog After a while, I glanced at Lorenzo and found hi my profile He asked, “Can you tell o? You seemed upset”