Calm.

The fiancé’s twenty-fifth birthday…we spent it at Makino, which is the only Japanese restaurant to which Bruyère and I agree. I have the sushi, and she prefers the shrimp and beef dishes…anything cooked, really. It was a nice time, though the fiancé was as exhausted as we were. He does try for us, and we know that. At any rate, we know at very least he enjoyed the new chrome rims we bought for the 1966 Volkswagen he is restoring.