by April Henry
Dante laughed. “I know a million Jessicas in New York. They all worry too much about what people will think about them to be who they are. And you, well, you talk to waiters and women in supermarket lines and strange dogs. I kind of like that in a girl.”
“Woman,” Claire corrected Dante. “I’m a woman.”
“Sir, we’re boarding,” the flight attendant called out.
“Don’t I know it,” Dante said, before dropping a final kiss on Claire’s lips and then turning on his heel.
IBCNU
Vanity License Plate Key
-CSHFLW = Negative cash flow (many states fill in any space on a vanity plate with a dash)
2N2R4 = Two and Two Are Four
2Q2STOM = Too Cute To Stay Home
AMBER = Amber
ANIL8 = Annihilate
AWAWEGO = Away We Go
BWHO UR = Be Who You Are
BYTDAPL = Bite the Apple
GON4EVR = Gone Forever
HEBGBZ = Heebie Jeebies
HE WON = He Won
HIHO AG = Hi Ho, Silver (AG is the periodic table designation for silver)
IBCNU = I’ll Be Seeing You
ICUNIYQ = I see you and I like you (said in an Elmer Fudd accent)
ML8ML8 = I’m Late, I’m Late (a perfect plate for a white rabbit)
MR E = Mystery
OPNYDE = Open Wide
PB4UGO = Pee Before You Go
RD4MOR = Ready for More
RKNROL - Rock and Roll
RUCNNE1 = Are You Seeing Anyone?
TAGURIT = Tag, You’re It
TIH5 HO = Oh, Shit (seen in a rearview mirror)
TOUCHE = Touche’