Sashimi

'... Before we went, I sat down at the kitchen table and cut out almost every coupon in the supplement and stuck 'em in my purse and it was like a half hour driver once you got through the tunnel. When we pulled into the parking lot, I felt like I'd discovered the Promised Land.'

'Wide aisles. Better selection. Jumbo sizes.'

'All those things were good. But the most exciting thing was a surprise.'

'And that was?'

I grasped his arm. It was firmer than Ian's. He had real muscles. 'Double coupons.'

Tom laughed. 'You're funny.'

He glanced down at my hand. Maybe he just didn't want me to touch him. I took it off. He looked at me very earnestly and swallowed.

'Living in the suburbs is not worth double coupons,' he said. 'City people are much more interesting. Like having a dancer for a mother. I can't even imagine . . .'

Source: The art of undressing, Stephanie Lehmann, p72.

It's only the beginning.

p109:

... Something like a real date. I looked at him and blushed slightly. Was that a look of panic on his face?

I have to thank Sonia for this not too romantic book. (I generally don't like those seriously romantic ones.) There are two other central themes, of food and stripping, but it turns out to be a rather clean book, I think.

And for some reason, I recalled Yingqi's appetite for sashimi. It has yet to be whetted or fulfilled, I hope. :P