of the nicest people I have ever met. Every day after work, he would force me to eat by making it seem like he only did so to save him from the paperwork if I fainted.
Mrs. Rhode entered my life soon after.
She came to the diner every Tuesday and Thursday at exactly eight in the morning. The first time I served her, she sized me up and said that I looked like I could doze off right there in her waffles.
This was pretty much how she
