I drank some coffee. “You know, you don't look all that old to be a seasoned New Yorker.  I mean, I didn't mean to say that you are old, it’s just that you don't look like someone who has been around.”

“All I’ve ever done my entire life is dance.  Since I was five or six mother had me going to some dance studio. Tap, ballet, and music lessons over and over.  I never knew my father. She met him at some kind of dancehall thing. The guy kept talking about how he was going to die soon and had never been with a woman. Mother fell for it and well, then I came along.”

The four big java Joe’s stuffed into white shirts made a big deal about leaving a tip...

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