“A few weeks after arriving in St. Cloud, Eddie started to pick up jobs here and there. He randomly encountered Sandy, the waitress from the Hungry Haven, at a drugstore and she told him that an overworked construction guy who didn’t do concrete had heard about a divorcée in a Victorian outside Pierz who needed a whole pool patio and front walkway done.”
“For the last twenty years or so, I have returned again and again to a remarkable story, written by Anton Chekhov when he was twenty-seven. It’s called ‘The Kiss.’”