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Date Posted: 20:23:22 04/04/01 Wed
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Kate
's message, "Things My Mother Taught Me" on 09:29:32 04/03/01 Tue
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A good meal, and everything looks brighter.
When they climbed over the last fence, David thought to ask, "How is your hand?"
"Okay." Milla absently scratched her injury and David took her hand in his.
"It's kind of red."
"It's all right."
"And what happened here?" he pointed to a long, fresh scrape on her palm.
"Oh, nothing. I still can't feel much with it. Sometimes I scrape it and don't notice because it doesn't hurt. I wasn't very careful the other day."
"Why is it streaky?"
"I guess maybe it could be infected," Milla said, unconcerned. She looked longingly at the snack stand. "Do you think we could get a bite to eat?"
"Yes. If you wash up, I'll take you for real food."
"Really? Where?"
"Wherever you want. But you need to be reasonably clean." David frowned at her. She'd been gone for more than a month. Where had she eaten in all that time? He nearly asked, but then didn't. Instead he nodded to the washrooms and said, "I'll meet you back here in a few minutes."
When Milla finally came out, she looked a little better. Still pretty dirty, but most of the dirt was on her clothes, not her skin. She'd dampened her hair, so it was reasonably tidy, and when they got in the car, she searched around for something to tie it back with. "What do you want to eat?" David asked.
"Everything," Milla said, confirming David's suspicions. There was a small restaurant on the way to Sorrento; they got a table outside, so people wouldn't stare at Milla's clothes.
She ordered a three-course meal and ate an entire loaf of bread before her pasta arrived. David had some pasta and watched while she devoured everything but the tablecloth. When she was finished, she sat back, dazed with food and wine and he barely got her back in the car before she fell asleep.
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