How a Five Million Dollar Bet Led to an Unexpected Marriage in Queens

go back to Manhattan for a night?” I asked, watching a sparrow land on the telephone wire across the street.

“I told them we were busy,” he said.

“Were we?”

“We have to paint the spare bedroom,” he said, turning to look at me with a soft smile. “And I prefer the company here.”

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