"...We don't need expensive. Someplace casual, okay? Let's just go grab a bite at Jump and Phil's.

She liked Jump and Phil's for a number of reasons, not the least bit that it was moderately priced. And unlike most island restaurants that catered to tourists. Jump and Phil's clientele were predominantly locals who had moved to the island years before.

Conversations with the locals were genuinely more relaxed than those with short timers or tourists. The latter always asked, "So where are you from?" The locals seldom did because they didn't much care. Nor did they ever ask, "What do you do?" This island was a place where people started new lives. Who you'd been, what you'd done not longer mattered."


~FROM JOHN MAXIM'S "WHISTLER'S ANGEL,"
CHAPTER 14, PAGE 113