They Went on a Holiday Cruise and Left Me With a Man They Called a “Problem”

“But rarely music. Certainly not like this.”

“Like this?” I repeated.

“Intimate,” he said. He seemed to catch himself. “Immediate, I mean. Unmediated by microphones or bad acoustics.”

“Intimate will do,” I said softly.

He looked away. I did not press.

The following morning I sent another text: Unexpected connection. We understand each other perfectly.

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