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Saturday - Monday
After they'd dropped Patty and Danny at their
respective homes, Lowell leaned in the window of her car and asked,
"Could you stand another cup of coffee? Real coffee?"
Cathy admitted she could probably handle it.
He got back into the Datsun and she found herself following him
once again. She began to feel like the tortoise racing the hare
since her Honda didn't have the kind of acceleration the Datsun
could generate. She checked her rearview mirror several times on
the way but didn't see another car following.
Their destination proved to be a tiny, dark
hole of a place in a small strip shopping center. Inside, however,
the bakery-coffee shop featured tables topped with cheerful gingham
tablecloths—real cloth, not vinyl—wrought iron chairs and gleaming
