She took his hand, and together they entered the restaurant where the tables were draped with white linens.
There, with the candlelight on the table between them, they talked about everything about their lives except the future that flickered in front of them. She worked as a receptionist for Dr. Bibbins, the dentist.
After that they went out once a week.
Each occasion had to be different.
He drove her to Bessemer where there was an A&W Burger Drive-in.
He took her waltzing at the Ironwood Memorial Building where young enlistees, anxious to leave for boot camp where they’d learn to fight, were having their last night in Ironwood.
He took her to McLellan’s, where a pimple-faced soda jerk served them egg creams. He made her laugh so hard with his stories when he was a soda jerk at Tick
