He was munching on a pretzel when he choked on it.
She was sitting on a nearby corner table at the café.
She gave him the Heimlich.
He thanked her and invited her to lunch at the nearby hotel.
She declined.
He was undeterred.
She was insistent she need not be thanked.
They walked out of the coffee shop together in a friendly argument over why they should have lunch together.
They parted at the corner of 29th and 6th Streets.
He called his father who was an intelligence agent.
She gave him a false name.
She did not want him to find her.
She did not want anything to do with any man.
Her sister died from her husband’s beatings.
She was afraid.
He found her.
She never thought he would.
They had coffee one afternoon.
He asked her where she learned the Heimlich.
She said she was a nursing aide at a nearby hospital.
He thought that was great.
He was a boat builder himself.
He bought her a bunch of yellow tulips.
She said yes to lunch.
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