Summary

The first chapter begins with a dream in the past tense, in which a cowpoke, another word for a cowboy, shared his thoughts on life while ignoring Smith. She said he must pay attention to her in her own dream. In response, he wrote on a piece of paper that it was his dream.

Café ‘Ino

Smith describes the café near her home that she habitually visits. She has ‘her’ table in a quiet corner and orders coffee and brown bread with olive oil in the morning. The cowpoke is still stuck in her mind. When the café employee shares the news that he is opening a beach café, she is reminded of her own past hopes of doing the same. In the past tense, Smith remembers feeling excited by all the cafés in New York when she moved...