That’s kind of how Anise and I spent our free time over the next few months. Well, we did do other things too, like she was stepping up her training regiment, and I was actually cooking for five now that two new girls had moved in to the boarding house. And we did girlfriend stuff, like dancing and moonlit strolls. I even got her to slow down long enough to go see a movie with me.
That’s why, when the time came, it was so hard for me to tell her I was leaving.
Back when I had been throwing my resume at any restaurant and catering business I could find, hoping to find one where it stuck, I took a chance and sent one to my dream job—Cirqulara in Chicago. They were a little slow in getting back to me, but when they did, and they told me they were opening up a second location, I found it ver
