Miranda ordered her skinny green tea latte in the trendy coffee shop on Ramona Street. She was there meeting with her niece Christi, who was planning to marry a 20-something start-up tech billionaire, whom she didn’t love, feeling that she could not pass up the opportunity for great wealth.
As Miranda placed her tea order, the young cashier said, “Perfect.”
A sculpture by Tony Natsoulas in the Cantor Museum on the Stanford campus.