Sooner or Later
Dan backed his brand-new white Explorer into a tight spot on Main Street. The California sun blazed down, bronzed people in shorts and T-shirts whizzed by him on rollerblades or simply took it easy at sidewalk cafes, and the parking meter still had half an hour left on it. It was early April and he'd seen the weather back east on TV: they'd just had another two inches of snow. Feeling that life wasn't too bad after all, he strolled into Ellie's Place.
The red-haired young woman behind the coffee machine gave him a dazzling smile of welcome that seemed to spread from one pretty diamond-studded ear to the other.
"Be right with you," she called. "The coffee machine's acting up again though, so if it's caffeine you're after, you might want to try Starbucks. It's on the next block."
"Juice is fine. It's eggs I really want, scrambled with a toasted bagel."
"Okay." She wrote the order and headed toward the kitchen in the back.
It was just a tiny storefront cafe done out like a Parisian bistro. The mirrors covering the walls were old ...
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