THE FOUR BEST DRINKS I HAVE HAD IN MY LIFE AND THE MEN WHO DROVE ME TO DRINK4. Gin and Domaine de Ca
THE FOUR BEST DRINKS I HAVE HAD IN MY LIFE AND THE MEN WHO DROVE ME TO DRINK4. Gin and Domaine de Canton cocktail with fresh thyme, created spontaneously by an antiques dealer living on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois. When I first moved here, I met a man with an apartment I wanted to fuck. The apartment, not the man. If you’ve ever been in an apartment you wanted to fuck, you’d know. Hardwood floors, windows which reached the tall ceilings, a bathtub I could have slept in, and almost did one night during a drunken argument. He made strange use of the space and, some mornings before he woke up, I would do the dishes in his sink and straighten his papers like I was the help. He looked at me like the child of a disgraced princess who married a kitchen boy and, in some ways, I guess I am. He made me this drink to impress me and I pretended it didn’t. He slow danced with me in his beautiful apartment and I pretended not to care. He told me stories about his twin sister, his trips to coastal islands, his one lost love, and then he fell asleep. I didn’t, I never did. (full piece here) -- source link
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