Dinner with Julie
March 2017“You said you saw Giorgio again, another few times?” she asked.
I explained to Julie that when I was leaving Rome that time, I agreed to come back to see him again. He was going to be traveling for a while, and I had to get back to my job anyway. So, I couldn't just quit everything and stay.
That part of the explanation seemed easy for me to tell, but as I said the words so casually I could tell that Julie was suddenly becoming aware of how serious was my relationship with Giorgio.
“You weren't really just going to chuck it all and stay, were you?” Julie's words carried a degree of uncertainty, as if she were discovering a part of her mother she had never known.
I didn't answer; I didn't shake my head, and her eyebrows pinched together for a moment, then r
