THE FINALE

After that phone call, giant waves of relief come for days, for weeks. Nancy is jazzed and sends me on those errands that started this story. I keep doing my pushups, stay off the sauce, return to the hood, my step returns and I revitalize Jimmy Dolan, my alias who writes the fictional Mozza Tribune. Alas, tragedy comes to The Mozza Corner as Osteria chef Kirby Shaw goes into a coma for two months…