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    Ideas. No plan. Kathy's now gone up north doing some secret story on foxtail palm smuggling, so it's just me at home. So I thought maybe you could come over. We could have something to eat.
    Good. That's a good plan.
    It's not a plan. It's just an idea. A plan would be like, be here by seven and bring a bottle of that wine you brought on Friday and we'll get takeaway from Qan Heng's, pork balls followed by chicken with ginger and shallots and rice for two. Now that'd be a plan. But why don't you just come over after work? (p. 260-61)

   

    We walk to Qan Heng's and by the time we get back to Drake Street, both the dinner and the wine are cold. I open the wine while Rachel microwaves the pork balls.
    We sit on the small back deck looking over the untidy grass of her garden and someone else's neat vegetables just beyond the fence and we eat and drink and talk. (p. 263-64)

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