“I talked to him on Christmas, and again on March 5th. Neither one of us hung up the phone that whole time.”
“I’ll be 30 in April. My birthday is March 5th.”
“A brick could be used like March 5th marches in a marching band. And guess what, as the marching band director, I am the cement that holds everyone’s shoes in sync at the bottom of the Hudson River. ”
“I hung up the phone, and America glared at me. “You SLEPT with him? You bitch! You weren’t even going to tell me?”
“Dave hung up. And unplugged the phone. With a fierce and bitter pain he stared at it, watching how, over and over again, it didn't ring.”
“A date is a place, a destination. March 5th, 1982 is the ideal tourist trap.”