That was my first thought as well. If it were a cell phone call, then it would make sense. But this was written in the ’90s right? Before everyone and his dog had a cell phone?
Whoa! We suddenly jumped from Single Norm to Married with Two Kids Norm!
Also: nothing a little Photoshop won’t fix. Or AI photo tools. Nowadays, there’re AI photo tools that will swap the faces from several photos to get a photo with everyone looking good…
Indeed, Reine was ALWAYS the one for him.
Did you deliberately leave her out of the voting so that we would have to write her in?
If only the Presidential race worked like that.