““I hoped there weren’t any vomit chunks in my wavy auburn locks. That would be sure to ruin Marlboro Man’s dinner. “You okay?” Marlboro Man asked when I returned to our table. He’d ordered a Coke, and his bread plate was covered with crusts. I’d been gone over ten minutes. “Yes,” I said. “I’m sorry; I just…I just got a little sick all of a sudden.” “What’s wrong?” he said, by then probably alarmed by the green tinge of his new wife. “I have no idea--it just hit me like a ton of bricks,” I explained. “I’m fine now, though!” “Maybe you’re pregnant,” he said with a sly grin. I knew enough about the timing of conception and morning sickness to know that pregnancy likely wasn’t the problem. “I don’t think that’s it--,” I began. Then it hit me again even more violently than before, and I ran back to the bathroom, where I lost it again--this time in a different stall. Sydney, we have a problem.””
