Peggy and Fred are eating lunch at Lucia’s Restaurant.<\/p>\n
“I never heard of it before,” says Peggy.<\/p>\n
“I used to come here, now and then, in the old days,” says Fred, “before the war. Sometimes I used to think of this place when I was overseas. Then I thought – when I get home, I’m never going to eat in a dump like Lucia’s!” Fred smiles at Peggy, who smiles back.<\/p>\n
“What else did you think you wouldn’t do when you were overseas?” asks Peggy.<\/p>\n
“I never had any clear ideas,” replies Fred, “but there were two things I was sure of: one, that I knew I’d never go back to that drugstore.”<\/p>\n
“What was the other thing?” asks Peggy.<\/p>\n
“Mm, that one was even sillier,” smiles Fred. “I dreamed I was going to have my own home. Just a nice little house for my wife and me, out in the country… in the suburbs, anyway. That’s the cockeyed kind of dream you have when you’re overseas.”<\/p>\n
“You don’t have to be overseas to have dreams like that,” says Peggy.<\/p>\n
Fred looks at her. “Yeah,” he says. “You can get crazy ideas like that right here at home.” There’s a pause.<\/p>\n
Peggy glances at her watch. “Didn’t you say you had to be back at work at two?” she asks.<\/p>\n
“Yeah,” says Fred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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