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The food was great, although Elena sort of wished she’d ordered a different kind of wine. At the time, she’d wanted something cool, so this white wine from Portugal had sounded like a good idea. As she took a bite of her burger, though, she realized it wasn’t the world’s greatest pairing. Not that she was an expert or anything, but a few days of eating Alessandro’s amazing food and tasting the wines he chose to go with it had taught her a little bit.
No big deal, though. She mostly just wanted to enjoy the burger and the fries that had come with it, to feel herself get comfortably full…but not too full to go over to the Mine Shaft and mingle with the crowd at the blues festival. It would be a chance to actually hang out and have fun, something she’d never been able to do for her entire
