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The woman dressed in black is walking fast
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a different life 283 The woman dressed in black is walking fast Katharyn Howd Machan toward a cafe on Duval Street where she will order Cuban coffee in a mug she’ll grip with slender hands. She’s forty-one. So far her life has been the choice and bend of marriage, two kids, house, the part-time job where she feels she’s invisible. But here she knows she doesn’t have to be the same smooth person. No one cares if she buys lace and leather, emeralds in a plastic bag. It’s almost midnight now and here she is, her ears pierced twice, her hair a curling flame, already on her tongue the sharp bright pull toward dawn of con leche with sugar, all her high-heeled sandals have to dance with now. ...