Joe had little chance to see the world until this adventure appeared before him as his honeymoon. He had Suzan to thank for that and a broken heart that was slowly mending, if nothing else.
He leaned back in his plastic chair and looked up into the high ceiling of the airport terminal and spied the gigantic, white,,
metal beams crossing under it. It looked like a giant spider web.
They reminded him of St.Patricks Cathedral. He had been there a few times on school outings. His family had no religious affiliation to speak of though he thought that his mother might have been Catholic at one time in her life.
The beams were a stark white with large blue squares between them.
Sunlight penetrated the clear sky lights during the daytime sending shafts of bright light into the terminal and lighting it up brightly. But now the starry night sky could be seen as black and endless through through them after the rain had washed them into clear, colossal, sparkling lenses. The night sky was now visible through the giant skylights high above him.
Charlene had arrived in the back of the black town car. It was sparkling clean and ran as silent as any car she had ever ridden in. The driver was in uniform with a low profile, black hat. He was dressed in all black, matching the car.
He said nothing to Charlene after she had told him to “take me to La Guardia Airport, please.”
He was hard to read from the back seat. Charlene could only see his eyes in the rear view mirror. They seemed to be kind eyes. She had seen many harsh faces in her day and that part of his face seemed kind.
The car was soon on the express way to the airport. The car was traveling faster than she had expected. It would put her at the airport in plenty of time for her international flight. That pleased her.
“Better early than late,” she thought. She checked her phone and found the gate information there.
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