ImageCasual EleganceDear Diary:I was dining with a friend at a French restaurant on the Upper East Side in the early 1990s. While he waited, he turned his gaze in our direction. I smiled and mimed playing a piano keyboard. I shook my head and mimed playing classical guitar. Then, as the hostess escorted him to his table, he waved in our direction and our brief encounter was over.

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Persons: André Watts, — Mark Shechtman