7:04, 7:07, 7:13. Punctuality is a faraway dream in this country where bargaining is the norm and bombs may fall tomorrow. 

The minutes she spends waiting fill this sacred window where someone she loves across the world is awake. The Israeli sun sets as the American one rises, and so another day of cross-cultural stumbling continues.  

Israeli arrives on a motorcycle wearing skinny jeans and cologne that makes American sneeze. He is the kind of good-looking that her mother would point out on the subway – dark features set........

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