A curly-headed guy sat down on the couch in front of me with 
his newly engaged fiancé. This is at Samantha’s birth party—see previous post. I mentioned that this was a very comfortable party.
As I’m concentrating on drawing his cherubic face, I say absentmindedly, “I think I’ve drawn you before,” He doesn’t answer. I continue, “Was it in Bartlett?” He keeps still. “Bartlett, on the Fourth of July.” I ask if he’s ever been in Bartlett. He say, he has friends in Bartlett. He smiles. I’m getting warm. Then a name comes to mind. “Your name is Justin, is that it, Justin? I’ve 
drawn you before, right?” He laughs and then he says, “Dustin.” “Yessss, that’s it, Dustin.” He laughs. I promise to email him the caricature I did of him ten years ago on the Fourth of July at the edge of a white tent in Bartlett.
When I turned the drawing around for the two of them to see, he threw back his head and laughed.
I hope Rae, the hostess, will forward these photos to him because the slip with his email address got left at the party. Best to you, Dustin!
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