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dining room for dinner. I had now been there long enough to know how to order my din- ner. I had reduced it to a low- est


common denominator,


proving I could be just like, if not worse, than Meg Ryan in “When Harry Met Sally.” You know that part when she or- dered her food. T is is what I’d come to love on their menu. I’d say, “I’ll have your fried


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chicken dinner, but I only want two pieces of chicken instead of your usual four. I don’t want to waste any. And, I’ll have only one scoop of the rice, be- cause – again – I don’t want to waste half of it. Please hold the veggies, because the salad I’m having is taking care of my vegetables… (T e salad came with the dinner, so one-way- or-the-other, my veggies were


covered.) And, a glass of wine.” One night I got my bill and it read, “Senor Chicken.” I thought to myself, “Señor chicken? What an odd name for a dish to be called.” T en, it struck me; senior chicken, as in a small portion for the el- derly. I’m still laughing. So, this one night aſt er Señor


Chicken, I headed to my room. No TV, no clock, no phone, and a shared washroom down the hall. It was a full moon night, warm enough to throw open my French doors. I read while the noise of the bar below grew to its nightly crescendo with people and a band; it slowly faded away to the point of complete silence. I fell into a deep asleep. T en, while the town was


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duration. “Tell us Tom, just what is it you have learned from all those wonderful years with your wife?” Tom responds, “Well, I’ve learned that marriage is the best teacher of all. It teaches you loyalty, forbearance, meekness, self-restraint, forgiveness --and a great many other qualities you wouldn’t have needed if you’d stayed single.”


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