I was out last night with all my best friends. Thomas Barker has not been out for two weeks because of his new job with Equality Florida; together with his demands as The City's most-connected gossip columnist (he still says "entertainment columnist") he's been too busy to hobnob every day. I still do, though; it is the life blood of this island.

And, Leopoldo--Mr. Astor--told me he had been looking for someone for his three years here. He was glimmering in the set of antiqued pearl rosary I bought twenty years ago in San Juan, and I could only bask in the glow.