Rebecca couldn’t help but burst out laughing. Oh, this clock. Oh, this family. She was sure she’d never felt so accepted and so baffled in her entire life. She wanted to hear more stories about this strange man. What else had he given people over the years, and what else could possibly be going on in that theatre right now?
Once all the dishes were put away, Jamal made another pot of coffee and told all the stories he could remember. “We stayed with him once in Florida. Lovely house. Very clean for someone that old and who doesn’t like foreigners in his house, so you know he either has a white maid or has found one of the good ones. Anyway,” Jamal said. “He insisted that he would cook us chicken. Special chicken. Very adamant about this part to the point where I was worried it was a racis
