I had completely forgotten about the coasters. They were made of oak. Or mahogany. Or walnut, who knows? They were dark, I guess so when you spilled your wine on them the stain didn’t show up. And they had these engravings cut into them. One of them was clearly engraved with the street map of downtown Manhattan. The other two coasters I could never figu…
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