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Another week went by in the usual office routines and house routines,
but when Saturday night came around, Eteo experienced another
first in his relationship with Ariana. He took her for dinner to
La Pergola in Richmond, where they dined on prosciutto and other
special salamis and antipasti, with the restaurant’s special bigoli pasta
as the main course, a rare dish in Vancouver that only this restaurant
offered. They also had an excellent bottle of Chianti, which perfectly
complemented the pasta and grated parmigiana. Ariana was as familiar
with pasta dishes as Eteo, but this bigoli was unique and
she exclaimed in delight when she tasted it.
“I’ve never tasted pasta this good, and we use pasta a lot in our
cuisine,” she said with a big grin on her face.
They were on the patio, birdsong all around them, and the food,
the wine, and the ambience made them both jolly and content. Above
them, in the heights of the firmament, a billion stars seemed to reflect
their jolly mood, dancing their twinkling celestial dance in the midst
of the great void.
“I haven’t been here for a long time, but their food is still …

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