el

tonight i had another lovely pinochle night with e. for a while now we have had set girl dates, every tuesday night.

we went to el meson for a dominicana salad and tamales.

and a bottle of nerola.

we toasted and avoided conversation around my impending move.

both kind of in denial with each other.

we toasted to long distance pinochle nights and laughed about people we know. talked about my farewell party and boys she has dated. rolled our eyes at a familiar face in the restaurant. fluttered our eyelashes at our gentleman waiter. inhaled our dinners and desserted with key lime pie. swirled our wine. relived memory after memory.

i am going to miss so many things about minneapolis.

but i am really going to miss e.