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The three of them had dinner together. The feigned politeness between the two men slowly shifted into rivalry. Gabi tried to steer the course of conversation for a while, and made jokes to alleviate the edges of certain dropped comments, but realized that right now – for the first time in years – she wasn’t in control of the situation. For a while, she felt like her nerves were about to split. She was sitting with two good-looking men at a table, both of whom she loved in different ways, and they were stabbing each other with gestures and words. She had always considered Juan a warm-hearted, good-natured kid who was never mean or hateful; but this Juan, the one sitting next to her in the atrium of a restaurant on Bécsi Road, seemed to be some other person. The sadness in his eyes meta
