Chapter 41: The GardenerApril 12
Spring in full swing, it seemed only appropriate to have a lunch gathering in the garden with a few guests: Mason, Ken, Sebold and his guest, Manning, and me. Over cucumber sandwiches, a grape salad, and strawberry tea (iced or hot, whichever we individually preferred), I learned a few ins and outs of Sebold’s special guest, a gentleman by the name of Will Talon, his sweetheart.
Talon, as I liked to call him, worked with Zac at the Teller as a proofreader for the last dozen or so years. Never married. No kids. He claimed that he had fallen in love with Sebold during those very few first seconds he had laid his eyes on the man six days before at a charity event hosted by the Teller. The two men shared one two-minute talk together at the event about, believ
