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

too,” I said. “But we used old plastic soda bottles filled with hot water from the kettle. They always leaked by midnight, and you’d wake up with wet sheets.”

“Then you know the smell of damp wool,” he said, his eyes turning back to me.

He looked at me then, really looked, without the professional mask he wore for Eric or the partners at the firm.

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