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scream and yell, she liked this in Kosta. He would always be the calm
and stable one in an emergency, she thought.

There was, however, one disturbing chapter in this storybook romance.

By the time Memorial Day rolled around Lisa and Kosta had become a
pretty serious item, and Donna, the ex-girlfriend, still had not moved
out of Kosta's house.

Lisa, who still had not met Donna, was getting peeved.

"I don't like it one bit," she told one of her cousins, "but what can I
do?"

Kosta explained that Donna was a poor girl from a poor family.

"Have a heart," he said when Lisa lobbied for Donna's eviction.

"I can't just throw her out in the street."

Though Lisa didn't care for the arrangement, she never doubted Kosta.

If he said that he and Donna had separate bedrooms, then they had
separate bedrooms.

In July Lisa and Kosta became engaged. Lisa's mother, Mary Paspalakis,
threw a party for her daughter and invited a hundred people. On the
day of the party Kosta had lent his car to Donna, who also worked at
Lenny's Barbecue Pit, so Lisa had to drop Kosta off at the restaurant
so he could pick up his keys. When Kosta came out of Lenny's, his
collar was smeared with lipstick.

"What's that?" Lisa said.

"Oh," Kosta said. He dabbed at the collar with a tissue, trying to
make the pink stain go away. "Donna's," he said sheepishly.

Lisa felt her body go rigid. Her temples began throbbing.

"Donna's?" she said.

"Now calm down, it's nothing," Kosta said. "She just gave me a little
kiss and said, "I hope you'll be happy with your new wife."

"I'm sure she's thrilled that you're marrying me," Lisa said.

It didn't occur to Lisa that Kosta was lying or that he had encouraged
the kiss. But she was sure that Donna was being a bitch, putting her
mark on Kosta for all the world, or at least all the employees at
Lenny's, to see.