You’re not going bowling here, you know that, right? You’re not going to get a pint of Ben and Jerry’s anytime you feel like it. Can I get a beer if I feel like it? Well, yeah. You can always get a beer. But otherwise, there’s nothing. He’d meant all of this to caution her, maybe even to change her mind, but they hadn’t seen each other in so long. Alma thought he must have forgotten who she was. Nothing was exactly what she was looking for, and she had no intention of ever going back.

