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| World Hunger |
| 04.28.04 (10:23 am) [edit] |
A couple sits alone in the far corner of the hotel dining room. At a glance, they seem rather ordinary. She is pallid and skinny, and wears a modest flower-pleated dress. He is scruffy and long, and wears black slacks and a polo shirt. They don’t talk too loudly or too softly, and they don’t even touch each other. At least, not visibly. Yet the patrons, waiters, and waitresses can’t help but stare. There’s something about that couple, everyone thinks.
Yet they don’t know what it is. The man with the top hat at the table next to them imagines it’s the way they look at each other. “They know something that we don’t,” he says to his wife. She disagrees. “It’s in their lips; their smiles tell the story of love,” she says. And she thinks about her own smile. But the man with top hat doesn’t agree. They aren’t even smiling, he notices. But he is afraid to tell his wife.
And the waiter that once loved, the one that stands idly at attention ready to take the couple’s order, but is afraid to interrupt, has his own theory. “It’s the calm before the storm,” he says to nobody in particular. And he thinks about his own storm.
And the couple, oblivious to all that surrounds them, tries to solve the problem of world hunger.
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