The True Blue Dating Agency set Burke up on his first date. According to an email from Colby Blue, Burke was to meet a Reggie McFarland that evening at The Shrimp Shack on Bessinger Road, next to the lake. A picture of Reggie was attached to the email. Reggie looked like a muscular leprechaun, and he had a spiraling ball of red hair and bright green eyes. He stood at six-two, worked as an economics professor at West End College, and had three sons. Like Burke, Reggie was forty-two, good with money, and a lover as opposed to being a hater.
The Shrimp Shack had the best shrimp rolls in Erie, according to the writer, Nathan Hawkeson, of the Lakeside Grille, an on-line magazine defining trendy foods, cafes, and bistros. Both Burke and Reggie ordered the Shrimp Roll Platter to share: two rolls
