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Something suddenly occurred to me, so I asked, “Doctor, do you have time now?”
“Please call me Adenauer. And yes, I have time. Do you want to buy a cup of coffee?”
I was stunned and asked, “How do you know what I want to say?”
It seemed he had a good memory because he even remembered I had offered to buy him coffee when we had walked out of the supermarket.
Adenauer turned to look at me, thought for a while, and raised his eyebrows, saying, “Maybe it’s an occupational disease. As a psychiatrist, I need to observe human beings.”
“You’re awesome,” I complimented him without reservation.
Then we went to a Starbucks nearby with Balu. Adenauer was self- disciplined and did not add sugar to his coffee.
Seeing my expression, he said, “I want to keep healthy.”
I joked, “Please stop reading my mind, Wizard Adenauer!”
When he laughed heartily, I found the man in his thirties had dimples. At the thought of this, I shook it out of my mind. After all, he was a wizard who could read people’s minds!
If he found out what I was thinking, I’d be so embarrassed that I would want to disappear.
It was getting late, and I needed to take Balu home and prepare dinner. So, Adenauer politely said goodbye to me at an
intersection.
I had thought I would not see him anymore. But unexpectedly,
since I had met him on his way off work that evening, I had always bumped into him while walking the dog.
At first, we had only said hello to each other. Gradually, we began to have small talk.
I was glad to know him because he was gentle and humorous. I had never had dealings with such a mature and tender man before. At most times, he could guess what I wanted to say before I opened my mouth. But I knew he was not showing off his
professional abilities.
Even though a week had passed, he still maintained a moderate social distance from me. And I thought we were friends now.
However, things changed on Tuesday of the next week.
I had miscalculated the daily amount of the dog food Mrs. Krause had prepared for Balu, so I ran out of it a day earlier. Even though. she would be back tonight, I could not let Balu starve for over ten hours! So, I decided to go to the pet store to buy the same dog food by myself.
On the way, I came across Adenauer again.
“This is not
I have to buy some dog
you run out of dog
“Yes.”
get in his Mercedes and said, “Let me drive you to the pet store. It
Balu into his
of the dog food Mrs. Krause prepared?”
down in the memo. It’s an American brand. And I
guessed his concern, so
rearview mirror,
“It better be.”
I felt like being slapped in
products from “StellaChewys” and
types of dog food with different ingredients?”
asked, “Do you know how to choose?”
retriever when I was a student? I’m a professional in this area.”
from the shelf and said, “Balu is 5 years old. This one has freeze-dried red
are you so
my phone and sent Mrs. Krause
widened my eyes and looked up at Adenauer, not knowing what to
indeed professional.”
eyebrow and said, “I told
steps, looked around, and asked, “Would you like to have a
glanced in the direction he had been looking at just now and saw several restaurants of various styles. It was mealtime now, so it looked
“Sure.”
If I went home now, it would take half an hour to cook a meal. So, it was more convenient to have a meal
out.
need to
“No.”
to eat? French, Chinese, Japanese, or
shook my head and said, “All are OK
nodded, “I know a good
feel anything wrong until I followed him into a fancy French restaurant.
But it would be impolite to
the door, the latter soon took Balu
spacious restaurant, I felt a little
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French?” Adenauer asked, looking casual and natural as
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thought I was thinking too much and nodded,