"sure . but why me ? i don't know anything about it ."
" ewhy not you ? you're a contemporay of mel 's . matbe yo'll have some insight -"
" there 's that word again ."
wisdom , then-is that better ?- into how she might look at things ."
" i always have opinions . wisdom ? that's a longer shot ."
"i'll accept you opinions and hope for some wisdom . is thta fair ?"
i'd convinced myself that if i made dinner into a fact finding mission and didn't try to get amy talkking about herself , then i wouldn't be a date .
but then again , earlier that day i'd convinced myself that an avatar was living in the dashboard of my rented camry .
by the time i'd finished explaining what was going on with merideth and eric and lisa and stevie , our food had started to arrive in a series of small portions that landed like sets of waves . amy had moved on to an oregon pinot noir . i hadn't .
amy's first question to me about the situatuion was ." was this is why you're in os angeles ?"
"i think ." to fill in some background , i offered an abbreviated version of the adrienne and jonas aqnd marty story , and theday trip with merideth to strawberry fields . my agreement to help merideth . wallace's concern aboput his daughter . when i was done i asked ," any thouhts about lisa's disappearing act ?"
she ignored my questiion ." where is the rest of your family ? your wife and daughter ? ehile you and jonas were in new york ? while tyou are here ?"
"laurence and grace are in amsterdam . that's anothetr ,.... very long story ."
she nodded as though she understood something . she kept her eyes on mine . she sipped her wine patiently . i realized that she was waiting for me to tell her long sotry .
" ewhy not you ? you're a contemporay of mel 's . matbe yo'll have some insight -"
" there 's that word again ."
wisdom , then-is that better ?- into how she might look at things ."
" i always have opinions . wisdom ? that's a longer shot ."
"i'll accept you opinions and hope for some wisdom . is thta fair ?"
i'd convinced myself that if i made dinner into a fact finding mission and didn't try to get amy talkking about herself , then i wouldn't be a date .
but then again , earlier that day i'd convinced myself that an avatar was living in the dashboard of my rented camry .
by the time i'd finished explaining what was going on with merideth and eric and lisa and stevie , our food had started to arrive in a series of small portions that landed like sets of waves . amy had moved on to an oregon pinot noir . i hadn't .
amy's first question to me about the situatuion was ." was this is why you're in os angeles ?"
"i think ." to fill in some background , i offered an abbreviated version of the adrienne and jonas aqnd marty story , and theday trip with merideth to strawberry fields . my agreement to help merideth . wallace's concern aboput his daughter . when i was done i asked ," any thouhts about lisa's disappearing act ?"
she ignored my questiion ." where is the rest of your family ? your wife and daughter ? ehile you and jonas were in new york ? while tyou are here ?"
"laurence and grace are in amsterdam . that's anothetr ,.... very long story ."
she nodded as though she understood something . she kept her eyes on mine . she sipped her wine patiently . i realized that she was waiting for me to tell her long sotry .
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