and speared a piece of fruit. “Not sure. Anyway, enough about me. What about you? What do you do when you’re not selling vitamins and nutritional shakes?”

I wondered if he’d let me get away with the topic change. Most people at this point would have asked for a demonstration, which wasn’t really practical.

To my surprise, he answered the question. “I’ve got another job as a waiter.”

Okay. Weird, but it made things easier on me, and he wasn’t making excuses to leave suddenly. “Where?” I asked.

“Little bar and grill over in North East. Nothing special. I’m really working hard to build my business so I can get out. I want to just work for myself.” He ate another bite and then added. “Nothing as exciting as what you...

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