CHAPTER 14PARACHUTERS
I decided to go in with Deet and one other pilot on the beach house. It was right on the beach and fairly near the Ambassador Hotel. I could walk to the Ambassador in about thirty minutes, and I found I liked walking along the beach to their beach bar. Lilly wasn’t broken hearted. She shrugged and said that I would be back. “Zhey always come back to Lilly’s,” she repeated.
All of my worldly goods went back into my duffel bag, which I tossed into Junebug before driving the few miles to the rental house. One thing I thought I would miss was Lilly’s cooking, although as it turned out one of the guys, Tony, was a very good cook. Being a good chef is a gift, like being a brilliant physicist or pianist—you either have it or you do not, and it isn’t something that you can
