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a town car was waiting in front of the building when i stepped outside . the driver had ipod buds in his ears , his eyes were closed , and his lips were singing silently along to some private concert . i was guessing hip=hop . he startled and jumped out the door when he saw me standing on the sidewalk . he said ." dr. gregory ?"
merideth was right behind me . i shook my head at her , she said ." the car is paid for , aln . it will just go to waste if you don't use it ."
old shit . i was angry that she'd ordered the car despite my protests . i stepped forward and gave the driver ten dollars and told him no thanks .merideth spoke to him for a moment before he pulled away .
" you don't have to be a jerk . i was trying to be nice ." she walked away , down the block . she climbed into the driver's side of a dark gray lexus .
i was being a jerk . my reaction to the car service was an end -of the marriage reflex that wouldn't die . i passed her as i walked down the sidewalk toward the intersection ,where i hoped i could get a cab , she was checking her eyes in the vanity mirror . she knew i was on the sidewalk beside her , but she wouldn't acknowledge me . it all felt familiar .
i hurt for her . the visit to lisa's rental hadn't provide any new avenues that were likely to help merideth find her surrogate , or her baby .and thelikely possibility that lisa was sexually active during the pregnancy provided a new level of worry and concer that merideth deth hadn't anticipated having to deal with .
i got a cab right away . after a block the friver caught my eyes in the mirror and confirmed the address . his accent suggested he was from th e middle east .
i told him m he had the address right ." go by the park , please ." i said ." maybe down central park west ?"
" i can go through on eighty-sixth , you want . then take fifth . you cool enough ? more aqir ?" he asked .
i was shocked . new jork cabies can endure a tremendous amount of heat if their dollars are bying the fuel for the air conditioners .
" i'm cool ," i said ." thanks ."
in the steamy car my proclamation sounded especially silly . the driver and i both laughed . the evening of riding in cabs was a merideth inspred luxury , during my my stay i's been trying to limit myself to trains and feet .i hadn't yet figured out the new york buses .
the driver cut across central park by the reservoir . i watched the scenery go by wile i pondered merideth's situasion .
even though i thought her fears were premature and exaggerated . i understood merideth 's concern about lisa's absence . in her shoes . i would have had the same fears . but i wasn't ready to buy into her alarm .
after witnessing stevie's practiced tantrum about her sister , my inclination toward alarm was even more tempered . stevie's description of an irresponsible streak in lisa's character rang true . and if it was . it might be a sufficient explanation for her sister's relatively brief period of radio silence .
when i'd taken molecular biology in colllege , the professor had started the first class in the darkened lacture hall under an immemse projected photograph . the picture - a close up of the provocative hollow createdly by the cleft between a woman 's uplifted breasts -guaranteed to fucus my attention ,
a town car was waiting in front of the building when i stepped outside . the driver had ipod buds in his ears , his eyes were closed , and his lips were singing silently along to some private concert . i was guessing hip=hop . he startled and jumped out the door when he saw me standing on the sidewalk . he said ." dr. gregory ?"
merideth was right behind me . i shook my head at her , she said ." the car is paid for , aln . it will just go to waste if you don't use it ."
old shit . i was angry that she'd ordered the car despite my protests . i stepped forward and gave the driver ten dollars and told him no thanks .merideth spoke to him for a moment before he pulled away .
" you don't have to be a jerk . i was trying to be nice ." she walked away , down the block . she climbed into the driver's side of a dark gray lexus .
i was being a jerk . my reaction to the car service was an end -of the marriage reflex that wouldn't die . i passed her as i walked down the sidewalk toward the intersection ,where i hoped i could get a cab , she was checking her eyes in the vanity mirror . she knew i was on the sidewalk beside her , but she wouldn't acknowledge me . it all felt familiar .
i hurt for her . the visit to lisa's rental hadn't provide any new avenues that were likely to help merideth find her surrogate , or her baby .and thelikely possibility that lisa was sexually active during the pregnancy provided a new level of worry and concer that merideth deth hadn't anticipated having to deal with .
i got a cab right away . after a block the friver caught my eyes in the mirror and confirmed the address . his accent suggested he was from th e middle east .
i told him m he had the address right ." go by the park , please ." i said ." maybe down central park west ?"
" i can go through on eighty-sixth , you want . then take fifth . you cool enough ? more aqir ?" he asked .
i was shocked . new jork cabies can endure a tremendous amount of heat if their dollars are bying the fuel for the air conditioners .
" i'm cool ," i said ." thanks ."
in the steamy car my proclamation sounded especially silly . the driver and i both laughed . the evening of riding in cabs was a merideth inspred luxury , during my my stay i's been trying to limit myself to trains and feet .i hadn't yet figured out the new york buses .
the driver cut across central park by the reservoir . i watched the scenery go by wile i pondered merideth's situasion .
even though i thought her fears were premature and exaggerated . i understood merideth 's concern about lisa's absence . in her shoes . i would have had the same fears . but i wasn't ready to buy into her alarm .
after witnessing stevie's practiced tantrum about her sister , my inclination toward alarm was even more tempered . stevie's description of an irresponsible streak in lisa's character rang true . and if it was . it might be a sufficient explanation for her sister's relatively brief period of radio silence .
when i'd taken molecular biology in colllege , the professor had started the first class in the darkened lacture hall under an immemse projected photograph . the picture - a close up of the provocative hollow createdly by the cleft between a woman 's uplifted breasts -guaranteed to fucus my attention ,
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