From Negril, With Love
By Chantale Reve
Copyright © 2010 Chantale Reve
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They had sat at the far corner table of the venerable Downtown Brooklyn restaurant so many times before, long ago, when egg creams still were on the menu. Their weekly conversations had seeped so deeply into the cushions of the tangerine banquette that waiters knew when to surprise them with monogrammed anniversary cheesecake slices. Back then, it was Sinatra piping through the speakers in the ballroom disguised as a dining space, but now Aretha’s voice was gliding and diving amid a fluttery flute in “Until You Come Back to Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do).”