ROSETTE 

I hadn't wanted to come to this club. I just wanted to stay home like a widowed grandmother and do what I love—that is what Sofia calls it. But Sofia had insisted that I go out tonight. She didn't take no for an answer. She even picked out my dress. 

So here I was in a place that was noisy, smelly, and just packed with bodies, and I wanted to be anywhere but here. And then a guy came to me—I knew him from school, but never could remember his name—and he was funny ...