birthday surprise in nyc - evelyn takes us to BASTIDE -

evelyn booked us into bastide,

a wonderful french restaurant in tribeca,

as a surprise for my birthday.

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as we were walking towards it,

tim and i stopped dead in our tracks.

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years earlier, after 9-11,

tim and i had wandered tribeca,

dreaming of living there.

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we had found an abandoned building for sale,

had dreamed of converting it,

selling units,

living at that corner.

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of course,

it was where bastide now resides.

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you enter into a room of fresh apples:

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and are candle-lit the entire meal:

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there was something in that lobster and crespelle terrine

that i would have married:

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and something in the evening i will never forget:

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