Foreign language Quote by Suzanne Jenkins

““Yes, sorry, I guess I should have mentioned we were going to a vegetarian restaurant. Do you mind?” he asked. What could she say? She’d worked at Howard Johnson’s. Her kids used to say if Stouffer’s didn’t make it, they didn’t eat it at their house. “I guess I could have a salad. This is like trying to read a foreign language.” She kept turning it back and forth, hoping a page with the word “hamburger” would appear if””

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