Desiree Aquino

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“Three Teas” by Desiree Aquino

Submitted to Contest #287

I was embarrassed by the silence.  It was so quiet in this tearoom, sipping and blowing the hot water in my cup sounded thunderous.  “Don’t worry about it,” assured Pam, my friend of 20-plus years. “Nobody cares.”   I giggled, mildly distressed.   We’d been to this place before, an unassuming low-slung brick building on the corner of a slow industrial street. About a year ago. We were searching for a place to host a middle-aged women’s group, hoping to be a source of refuge, some solitude and simultaneously, some communit...

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