This was stranger than it was romantic, as if the storm had catapulted them over the niceties and doubts of the courtship ritual. They found themselves engaging in domestic discussions about food and supplies and the condition of their shelter.
“It’s as if everything’s in reverse,” Ochs said.
During the days, they taped garbage bags around their legs and foraged for food and water. They ate military “meals ready to eat,” but the night the tap water started running again for showers and toilet flushing, they laid a tablecloth over a piano bench and celebrated with tuna curry.
When they became feverish and nauseated, Clarke, who has spent some time working in hospitals, prescribed a course of antibiotics from an already looted pharmacy.
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