1949, Los Angeles

Drama, some women lived on it. Rita was like a magnet to it. She had this lover, an actor who never actually got a role at all

You’ve seen her once, at one of your father’s restaurants where you also were a waitress. The Garden Club ladies lunched there. But you didn’t have much conversation with her. Yet

His name was Scooter. Rita wanted him to be only hers, because but when she found out Scooter went with Dee, the daughter of Alma Fillcot, she was devastated

And so she sat alone at the restaurant she met you. Pondering as she sat at a table

Until you approached her. You were pretty, and young. Maybe about 22. You politely asked if she needed anything and she nodded “Can I have two drinks?” She asked with a wink