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…big difference between a call girl and a whore is a call girl goes to bed with anybody and a whore goes to bed with everybody…

Monroe D. Underwood

We would go to Donelli’s.

Betsy wasn’t much on Italian food but she was crazy about red and white checked tablecloths.

Betsy would have a salad and an order of rye toast and a brandy ice.

I would have a steak sandwich and a green chartreuse and three black coffees.

Betsy would say how are you ever going to handle three hundred a month office rent?

I would shrug.

Just a run-of-the-mill shrug.

I would say look I don’t know everything.

Betsy would say it would be much easier if you moved in with me.

I would shake my head emphatically.

I would say no way.

Betsy would frown.

She would say why not?

I would say because you’re a whore.

Betsy would say dammit Chance can’t you ever say call girl?

I would shrug.

Betsy would say you told me it wasn’t important.

I would say it isn’t.

I would say it’s that goddam telephone that’s important.

I would say that goddam telephone would put me in the cracker shop.

Betsy would say should I have it disconnected?

I would say not until I get a client.

We would go on that way.