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[walk_ins]

Call him a romantic -- he certainly calls himself one, if he thinks it'll help with the ladies -- but Edward Chao likes Ehrmann Square at dusk. That's when they put the colored lights in the fountains.

The Kelowna has put in for a week's worth of routine repairs; that's a week's leave on Osiris, and Diwali's going on, and the lights in the Square

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[simon_doctor]

The apology overlaps with his protest: "Sorry, I'm --"

"..."

[walk_ins]

"...much prettier in the publicity shots? Yeah, we've been over that." Beat. "You did get Uncle Andy's present, right?"

Well. This evening just got a hell of a lot more interesting.

[simon_doctor]

That's one word for it.

"I did, yes." Just a little sardonic, but more wry than actually annoyed. "That was very thoughtful."

[walk_ins]

"That's me. I think of everything." Beat. "But you knew that. Don't you wish they covered this kind of situation in charm school?"

Another beat.

"I was the valedictorian of my class. As I bet you could guess."