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"I know" I took a deep breath "And I’d do it again, too"
Studying lad we stopped, too, even if we don’t get to have dinner here"
Surrounded by a streetlight halo, she looked alo?" I asked
She tilted her head "Do you like music?"
Ten minutes later, ere seated at a table in the pizza parlor we’d passed earlier Though I’d planned on candlelight and wine, we ended up ordering beer with our pizza
Jane, however, didn’t see lish literature, her years at Meredith, her friends, and anything else that happened to be on her h questions to keep her talking for the next two hours, and I can honestly say that I’d never enjoyed someone’s cotouches on ourour places, ed our heads and I said grace, thanking God for all that we had been given
"You okay? You seeo," Jane comlass of wine for each of us "Actually, I was re our first date," I said
"You were?" Her fork stopped in lass toward her "Do you even remeht before ent hoo to dinner at Harper’s, but we found a stray, and we missed our reservation So we had dinner at this little pizza place down the street instead And after that"
She squinted, trying to recall the exact order of events
"We got in the car and drove out to see the decorations along Haveret out of the car so we could walk around, even though it was freezing One of the houses had set up Santa’s village, and when you walked ift that you’d picked out for one through all that trouble on a first date"
"Do you rerinned "An umbrella"
"If I recall correctly, you didn’t see up her hands, "hoas I supposed tosomeone walk me to my car was my modus operandi back then You have to remember that at Meredith, the only men around were teachers or janitors"
"That’s why I picked it out," I said "I knew exactly how you operated"
"You didn’t have a clue," she said with a sirl you ever dated"
"No, you weren’t I’d dated before"
Her eyes were playful "Okay, the first girl you’d ever kissed, then"
This was true, though I’ve cootten this fact and it tends to come up in moments like this Infor "
"You were shy"
"I was studious There’s a difference"
"Don’t you re to me at all, except about your classes"