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@ Joe’s Cafe

There you are! I want to exclaim this when the couple walks in. But it’s a moderately large room, and they’re marginally far from where I sit, and they’re not even a couple. Well, they’re two people, and they came in together, but I sense something not quite couplish about them. I know. I’ve seen … Continue reading @ Joe’s Cafe

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Juxtaposed

He sat across from his girlfriend in the ice cream shoppe, but he paid her no mind. She sat with her back to the counter so she didn’t see the couple in the long queue for ice cream on the lovely summer’s day. She was savoring her coffee crunch double scoop before it melted clear … Continue reading Juxtaposed

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The Watcher

A woman sits alone at a table. The table is in the Starbucks section of her local Barnes & Noble store. The woman is a 37-year old mother of two. Or at least I think she looks like one from my vantage point halfway across the cafe. She has that slightly overripe look that women … Continue reading The Watcher