Setting: A coffeehouse in a hip, up-and-coming neighborhood of a small city. It's Wednesday afternoon, and the coffeehouse is fairly full of people eating, drinking, and chatting. At one table sits a group of women with knitting needles, yarn, and coffee. They're talking about, what else, the Titanic.
C: I love the Titanic movie. It's a disaster movie, which I love, and it's about the Titanic! There are a couple of scenes I just have to watch over and over because they're so sad. First, the band.
K: The way they come back together as the ship is sinking!
All: Oh! Yes!
C: . . . and the older couple, holding one another . . .
J: . . . in the bed!
All: Oooh! So sad!
C: . . . and the mother with her two children, telling them about the land they're going to--as the ship is sinking.
All: O-h-h-h! So sad!
There are teary eyes and sniffles all around, and everyone takes a sip of coffee.
Hee, hee. My last was prescient.
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