Sunny's Nights: Lost and Found at a Bar on the Edge of the World by Tim Sultan

Author:Tim Sultan [Sultan, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2016-02-22T23:00:00+00:00

“There was a balcony in the place and at one pernt, this guy got up and he made a Christmas speech. He said, ‘I just want to use this opportunity to thank all of you, my dear friends. And also to welcome our new friends to this very special gathering we do at this time of year. I raise my glass to our brotherhood and our friendship.’ We held up our glasses and me, I’m thinking, ‘What the fuck am I doing?’ ”

Sunny never expressed misgivings about these friendships; on the contrary, his sense of fraternity was deep-seated. What mattered to him was not a person’s occupation, but his having character as well as being one. He showed these made men respect, though not submission, and gave them attention and friendship not for what they did collectively but for who they were individually to him—something, it occurred to me, they may not have been that used to experiencing.

In time he would continue to loosen but never entirely abandon his code of confidentiality. He might point out spots as we drove through Red Hook, for instance, and say, “That’s where so-and-so killed so-and-so.”

“Who’s so-and-so?” I’d ask.

“He was the brother of what’s-his-name.”

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