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SLEEPING BEAUTY
A girl with purple hair and a nose ring shimmied in front of Ethan and giggled when she saw that he was asleep. I couldn’t help but roll my eyes. Dang it, I thought. The evening was going so well. Dinner was flawless! Our conversation was effortless! Our chemistry was palpable! We even made out [...]
SLEEPING THROUGH THE CHAOS
For our second date, instead of dinner at a restaurant, I took Ethan for a dinner served by one of those hip and trendy underground supper clubs. Just a couple of hours before the dinner, we were given an address in NoHo, which turned out to be a humungous loft that, by day, is an [...]
MY DATE WITH A NARCOLEPTIC, PART 4
As the icy wind swept up from the Hudson River, Ethan and I waited in the taxi queue at the Hoboken PATH station. The line was ungodly long, and I wasn’t necessarily happy to be surrounded by obnoxiously loud and drunk Jersey frat muscle heads with poor grammar. “I thought you lived close,” I said [...]
MY DATE WITH A NARCOLEPTIC, PART 3
When Ethan and I tumbled out of the taxi at 14th Street, our noses immediately detected the familiar aroma of McDonald’s French fries. We looked at one another and simultaneously said, “Chicken McNuggets!” We fell into each other with laughter. I objected at first. We had just had dinner five hours earlier and I feared [...]
MY DATE WITH A NARCOLEPTIC, PART 2
When I returned to the table, Ethan was asleep. I was unsure if I should wake him- I had forgotten to ask what the proper protocol was when a narcoleptic has a sleep attack. Was I supposed to leave him be and let him wake up on his own accord? Or was I supposed to [...]
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