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- Author: Marni Mann
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CALEB
April 15, 2013
Boston was lit in color. Balloons were floating high in the air, T-shirts
imprinted with pictures of the runners, posters held by shouting
spectators. And as I walked down the sidewalk with my best friend, Joe, his
arms were spread wide, his face pointed toward the skyscrapers.
“Patriot’s Day,” he said. “My favorite holiday of the whole goddamn
year, and I get to spend it with one of my best buds.”
Just as he finished speaking, someone bumped into him, accidentally
spilling beer all over his shoes.
“Still feel the same way?”
“At least it wasn’t puke.”
I laughed. “That’s some positive thinking.”
Patriot’s Day wasn’t just a commemoration of the Battles of Lexington
and Concord; it was when visitors from all over the world came to watch
the Boston Marathon—an event I wasn’t supposed to attend this year.
Instead, I should have been on the other side of the world with Smith, our
other best friend, riding an ATV over the sand dunes of Dubai, like the
photograph he’d sent yesterday. A trip I’d had to cancel when one of my top
clients requested a sit-down for this morning, which they ended up
postponing at the last minute.
When I’d called Joe to tell him, he’d convinced me to get drinks. I
would have preferred meeting in a much quieter part of town, but he’d
wanted to be in the center of the action, watching much of the race.
“Let’s stop in there.” He pointed to a bar I hadn’t been to since college.
“We’ll get a beer and then head to the finish line.”
“Wouldn’t you rather find a restaurant? I’m starving.” My stomach
grumbled as we passed several. I knew the wait times would be hours long.
“After a beer, we’ll grab food, deal?”
“Deal,” I replied, and I reached for the door, holding it open for him.
He paused in the entryway. “Fuck me, this place is packed.”
“This was your idea,” I reminded him and went toward the bar, finding
the end of the chaos, a line that was more than twenty deep.
“You’ve got this?” When I nodded, he added, “I’m going to look for
seats.”
“Good luck with that,” I said and took out my phone.
Over seventy-five work e-mails had come in since I’d last checked. I
read a few, not having the necessary resources at my disposal to give the
right answers, so I exited out and pulled up Instagram. The first photo I
came to was of Smith driving a boat across the Arabian Sea, wearing a hat
from our alma mater, the sun setting in a rich sky behind him.
“Not even a stool to be found,” Joe said as he rejoined me, still in the
same place in line.
I tilted the phone to show him my screen. “Are you surprised?”
“At how busy it is in here or that our boy chartered a boat that you’d
give your left nut to be on right now?”
I shook my head as I put my cell away. “I knew I should have booked a
flight when my client canceled this morning.”
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