The Emcee

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Ladies…

and gentlemen.

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May the seventeenth. One o’clock. Seventy Scituate Street Arlington. The rear garden. Bring something.

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Jeannine will be at the grill.

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Now.

I could tell you that this is just a barbecue.

An ordinary —

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— barbecue.

On an ordinary street.

In an ordinary town.

On an ordinary Sunday.

In an ordinary —

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— May.

[looks up]

But we both know.

Don’t we.

We both know.

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