Harlem
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“You’re sexy and flippant, but I don’t think one outweighs the other.”
“I’m the queen of sarcasm.”
“Oh, you’re bilingual.”
“I speak four languages, and sarcasm is the fifth, and I speak sarcasm both well and often. If you can’t handle it, if I am too sassy, now is a good time to walk away from this queen and leave her as you found her.”
That made me laugh. “I’ve been here once or twice. Never seen you here before.”
“First time here; never been to a club on the Sunset Strip, and I am here to dance and live life to the fullest.”
“Then let’s drink and dance and live life to the fullest.”
ERIC JEROME DICKEY is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty novels and is also the author of a six-issue miniseries of graphic novels for Marvel Entertainment, featuring Storm (XMen) and the Black Panther. He also penned the original story for the film Cappuccino, directed by Craig Ross Jr. Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, Dickey is a graduate of the University of Memphis (Herff College of Engineering) where he pledged Alpha Phi Alpha’s Kappa Eta Chapter. He also attended UCLA to study creative writing. He won an NAACP Image Award for his novel A Wanted Woman. Dickey has a mortgage but lives on the road and rests in whatever hotel will have him.
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