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“This is so cool, but…I still don’t understand what’s going on Are we going to go skiing? I don’t have any of my stuff”

“Nope”

Re my phone from my jacket pocket, I tap it open Hold it out as we step to the base of the gondola where a woman in a red snowsuit zaps the QR code

She glances down at her handheld machine “Two of you for seven o’clock?”

“Yup”

“Step this way please”

The gondola coh for us to safely step inside, the door sliding closed behind us

We sit just as it zooms to life and whisks us up the mountain

“Ro “This is so a! I’ve never been on one of these before”

She’s like a child on Christ, and all I can think is I did that—I put that smile on her face

It’s intoxicating, this feeling,her happy

The city below co, cars getting smaller and smaller and smaller

“Wow,” she says breathily “Roman, I love this”

There is a restaurant at the top—it used to be a bar and grill, but it’s been renovated into a chic steak and seafood date night destination “Theto the local newspaper I trolled their socialvideo after video of the re this as our first date

Lilly is in awe

The gondola coreeted by a winter wonderland of trees covered in Christht from a movie screen

We both inhale an excited breath

I take her hand, leading her in

It’s just crowded enough to give off good energy, and the table we’re given overlooks the hill and beyond

“This is so roht now” She re off when she pans toward the dining area “These pictures don’t do the view justice”

They never do