“But then I’ll never know what a Leil Shishi is,” she said playfully, but he missed that it was a joke and got all serious
The second Lauer son was invited to the same private tzedakah function as Shea Helberg, and he waited for a quiet moment.
The crowd wasn’t large and the Lauer son didn’t have to wait long. There was a very short speech, a few songs played by a string quartet in tuxedos, and then it was networking time, waiters rolling out trays of marinated strips of meat and hot stones to grill them.
This earned a moment of focus from the crowd, but then the people moved on.
Near the couches in the backyard, at which fresh cigars were being rolled, Helberg was checking his phone, seemingly annoyed at whatever he was seeing, so Lauer figured he had nothing to lose.
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