What Nora Knew
“I’d hauled out the good china, lit a couple of candles, and downloaded the entire sound track from Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call—New Orleans. And Russell still hadn’t guessed I was creating a romantic dinner the way I figured Eva and Nicolas Cage would’ve had a romantic dinner if a cop and a whore had bothered to have such a dinner in Bad Lieutenant. I didn’t know how to make a National Treasure dinner, short of decorating the room with cash, but I’d gone to all this trouble to give my boyfriend... a romantic fantasy. And to prove to myself that Deirdre was wrong. I wasn’t detached. I did have a grasp on romance.
We’d finished the gumbo and were eating the crab cakes and the Cajun chicken I’d brought home from Citarella’s. “Do you like the music?” I asked Russell.
“Sure, it’s great.”
“Like the chicken?”
“Sure,” he said.
“It’s Cajun. Like they serve in New Orleans.”
“Great chicken,” he said. He had his tie tucked into his shirt.
I was about to polish off my crab cake but set my fork down and asked, “Russell, do you consider me romantic?”MoreLess
We’d finished the gumbo and were eating the crab cakes and the Cajun chicken I’d brought home from Citarella’s. “Do you like the music?” I asked Russell.
“Sure, it’s great.”
“Like the chicken?”
“Sure,” he said.
“It’s Cajun. Like they serve in New Orleans.”
“Great chicken,” he said. He had his tie tucked into his shirt.
I was about to polish off my crab cake but set my fork down and asked, “Russell, do you consider me romantic?”MoreLess
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