![]() ![]() ![]() Also, Florida is registering a new positive case every five and a half seconds. If Florida were a country, the newscaster says, it would be rated #4 in the world in the number of Coronavirus cases, behind the U.S., India, and Brazil. Pina figures he’s always wanted to wear blackface. Trump wore a large black mask in public for the first time today. Fauci, because he’s seen as making Trump look bad. ![]() There’s more talk about last night’s pardon of Roger Stone news about the White House sending out anonymous opposition research against the administration’s leading infectious disease specialist, Dr. “I love you, Pina.” Now he peels off her mask and kisses her.Ī smart person, she thinks, would not turn on the car radio but stay attuned to the natural beauty around her, as she drives to the city she flicks on the radio. She wants to tell him that she did know, although that would be a lie.Ĭharlie takes off his mask. “Little did you know what you were getting into.” Charlie leads her to the bench at the duck pond, where she approached him, four months ago now. They cross over to the park to avoid a line of brunchers weaving its way from the door of the Sunflower Café. The only inside place on the square that she misses is the gorgeous polished oak bar at the Fig. The Girl and the Fig has tables running up the side street parallel to their garden seating. She doubts that she’ll ever sit at a table here with him again. She thinks about how much Vince loved to sit out front of the Swiss, gorging himself on the fresh bread and hot-peppered olive oil before his bowl of mussels and clams arrived. The Swiss Hotel now has tables running up the alley beside it. ![]() “Au contraire,” she said, baring her teeth at him, “I want to get tee shirts printed that read: ARE YOU TOO REPUBLICAN TO WEAR A MASK? The other day Charlie suggested that she might want to chill a bit about people not wearing masks. She and Charlie jut out onto the street to avoid these culprits. Pina was the fruit that he really wanted to pluck she wonders if she’s been more dangerous for him than the cactus.Īt 10:30 in the morning there are plenty of tourists on the square, many do not wear face coverings. She thanked Vince for the noble gesture, just as she realized that his hubris knew no bounds. After he got out the thorns he kept licking his fingers and lamented that he didn’t even get a fruit for her. Vince caught a few needles in his right hand and she thought she’d have to come to the aid of the old emergency room doctor, but he turned out to be good with both hands. This after telling a cautionary tale about people he’d seen mauled by the notorious cactus for tempting its dangers. On one of her first times with Vince in Sonoma, he tried to pluck out a pear for her. It’s an ageless edifice of paddles and thorns filled with tempting, unimaginable fruits. They pause at the magnificent cactus in front of the mission. Along the way they stroll past the Clydesdale farm where the man from yesterday with the feed cap, sits high in his carriage, with the collie on his lap, and drives two horses in broad circles around the dry pasture, raising clouds of dust. It’s Saturday morning and she and Charlie decide to walk to the square to have a look at what is open and to see if there’s much tourist frenzy. ![]()
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