![]() ![]() A headhunter calling me from Wachtell, yeah right. When this interview first came up, I thought it was a joke. All of his T-shirts are too small when he stretches, which I welcome. He stretches his arms overhead, revealing a slice of stomach. “You’re going to kill it today, babe,” David says. We’d pass all the big buildings in Times Square, and then I’d insist we walk to 51 West Fifty-Second Street so I could gaze up at the CBS building, where Wachtell has historically had its offices since 1965. I’ve wanted to work at Wachtell since I was ten years old and my father used to take me into the city for lunch at Serendipity and a matinee. All of the biggest corporate mergers, the deals that determine the vicissitudes of our global markets, happen within their walls. The client list is unfathomable they represent everyone: Boeing. The top lawyers in the country all work there. The mythological headquarters that sits in a black-and-gray fortress on West Fifty-Second Street. And today, I have an interview at the top law firm in the city. ![]() The average street style is a Penn sweatshirt), but there’s nowhere else in the city where we’d be able to afford a two-bedroom with a full kitchen in a doorman building, and between the two of us, we make more money than a pair of twenty-eight-year-olds has any right to.ĭavid works in finance as an investment banker at Tishman Speyer, a real estate conglomerate. Murray Hill isn’t the most glamorous neighborhood in New York, and it gets a bad rap (every Jewish fraternity and sorority kid in the tristate area moves here after graduation. I take the coffee cup and go sit in our kitchen nook that overlooks Third Avenue. David thinks it’s sacrilegious but he buys it, to indulge me. I go to the refrigerator, and when he hands me the cup, I add a dollop of creamer. He squints at me, and my heart tugs at the look on his face, the way it scrunches all up when he’s trying to pay attention but doesn’t have his contacts in yet. When we first started dating, I thought he was getting up out of bed before me to swoosh some toothpaste in there, but when we moved in together, I realized it’s just his natural state. ![]() I’ve already brushed my teeth, but David never has morning breath. I wrap my arms around him, kiss his neck and then his lips. It makes him look dignified, particularly when he wears glasses, which he often does. He’s still in his pajamas, and his brown hair has a significant amount of salt and pepper for someone who has not yet crossed thirty, but I like it. I’m wearing a bathrobe, hair spun up into a towel. “Happy Interview Day,” David says when I walk into the kitchen. That’s how many months I believe you should be dating someone before you move in with them. That’s the walk to work in minutes from our Murray Hill apartment to East Forty-Seventh Street, where the law offices of Sutter, Boyt and Barn are located. If I wash my hair, it’s forty-three.Įighteen. That’s how many minutes it takes me to brush my teeth, shower, and put on face toner, serum, cream, makeup, and a suit for work. It’s a meditative calming technique that helps your brain with memory, focus, and attention, but the real reason I do it is because that’s how long it takes my boyfriend, David, to get out of bed next to me and flip the coffee maker on, and for me to smell the beans. That’s the number I count to every morning before I even open my eyes. In Five Years is an unforgettable love story, but it is not the one you’re expecting. Dannie spends one hour exactly five years in the future before she wakes again in her own home on the brink of midnight-but it is one hour she cannot shake. Her meticulous planning seems to have paid off after she nails the most important job interview of her career and accepts her boyfriend’s marriage proposal in one fell swoop, falling asleep completely content.īut when she awakens, she’s suddenly in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and beside a very different man. She is nothing like her lifelong best friend-the wild, whimsical, believes-in-fate Bella. Perfect for fans of Me Before You and One Day-a striking, powerful, and moving love story following an ambitious lawyer who experiences an astonishing vision that could change her life forever.ĭannie Kohan lives her life by the numbers. “ In Five Years is as clever as it is moving, the rare read-in-one-sitting novel you won’t forget.” -Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists A Good Morning America, FabFitFun, and Marie Claire Book Club Pick ![]()
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