1. The Long Highway Pt. 34


    Date: 10/22/2023, Categories: Loving Wives, Author: bymidorigreengrasses 

    ... reinforces his sense of himself as elite, above average. Do you see that I mean?

I really don't think he's a bad person. I find him hard to understand but sense where he's been hurt in his life and try to soothe him.

We had an enjoyable lunch, by the way, and soon forgot his friend, former student, who I can describe a little from how he looked at us, turned at an angle from his deli-table against the facing wall to the left of the corridor where we walked. He was chunky, thickset, with a dominant torso, shortish legs like many South Americans, I guess. His face matched his frame, also looked squarish, I mean, and was fleshy, so that his smiles formed furrows on his brow. But he wasn't dark, had a reddish blond (or bright orangish), grown-out crewcut that suited the square shape of his big head, made him look flat on top.

His face was very expressive. I saw it light up on seeing Mitchell, a friend he hadn't in a while. I didn't see his expression fall when Mitchell sidestepped his invitation but I could imagine it. Animated. With extended arm, he'd patted the table, as if holding it for us. The kind of person whose emotions flow easily over a wide range, even to extremes. Am I like that? South Americans are different from Japanese, of course, but passion exists all over the world and can flow powerfully if brought out, as you and I know.
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