" what if it wasn't out of the blue ? waht if she thought that jaaana 's date was an unreliablle lover ? that's why it was on her mind ."
"possible ," sam said ." sometimes you're smater than i suspect , alan ."
" thanks . i think ."
" yup until this past spring , ranger ramoona had been seeing a guy from turkey who owns a restaurant in flagstaff - an applebee's . i think she said . maybe it's a chili's . i don't kn ow . she said he was an unreliable lover . i got the impression she's concluded that it's a turkish thing . that all thurks - at least the men - are unreliable lovers . but it was clear that it's not a trait she considers exclusive to the turks ."
" that's what i hear too ," i said , inntending the comment to be nothing more thna a conversation lubricant . i was curious to know more speciallly what ranger ramona meant by "unreliable ." was she talking fidenlity ? or something more immediately related to the carnal act ? something that modern blue pharmaceuticals promised to cure if the unreliable man could overcome his phobia of priapism .
iharbored a concern that if i asked for clarification , i would interfere with sam's spirited homily about his evening out and about his impressions of ranger ramona 's investigatory and romatic biases .
i did know that prior to the previous spring , when sam and i had sdescended together into our joint hell , trying to protect our familiers from a man determined to eke vengeance from us where we were most vulnerable , there was no way the conversation we were having could have occurred . while he told me the unlikely story of his time with ranger ramona , i realized that it was possible that our friendship might be evolving in ways that woulld give me comfort .
i came to a quick conclusion that the current intimacy between us was only posssible because he had come to view me as being his equal in terms of being flawed . he would gett no argument from me . i i suspected he knew that .
" there are lots of ways to interpret that ," i said ." unreliable lovers ."
"don't shrink out on me , aln ."
"possible ," sam said ." sometimes you're smater than i suspect , alan ."
" thanks . i think ."
" yup until this past spring , ranger ramoona had been seeing a guy from turkey who owns a restaurant in flagstaff - an applebee's . i think she said . maybe it's a chili's . i don't kn ow . she said he was an unreliable lover . i got the impression she's concluded that it's a turkish thing . that all thurks - at least the men - are unreliable lovers . but it was clear that it's not a trait she considers exclusive to the turks ."
" that's what i hear too ," i said , inntending the comment to be nothing more thna a conversation lubricant . i was curious to know more speciallly what ranger ramona meant by "unreliable ." was she talking fidenlity ? or something more immediately related to the carnal act ? something that modern blue pharmaceuticals promised to cure if the unreliable man could overcome his phobia of priapism .
iharbored a concern that if i asked for clarification , i would interfere with sam's spirited homily about his evening out and about his impressions of ranger ramona 's investigatory and romatic biases .
i did know that prior to the previous spring , when sam and i had sdescended together into our joint hell , trying to protect our familiers from a man determined to eke vengeance from us where we were most vulnerable , there was no way the conversation we were having could have occurred . while he told me the unlikely story of his time with ranger ramona , i realized that it was possible that our friendship might be evolving in ways that woulld give me comfort .
i came to a quick conclusion that the current intimacy between us was only posssible because he had come to view me as being his equal in terms of being flawed . he would gett no argument from me . i i suspected he knew that .
" there are lots of ways to interpret that ," i said ." unreliable lovers ."
"don't shrink out on me , aln ."
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