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You are near the tasting tables of a neighborhood restaurant when Orla Kavanagh discovers that the lemon dessert has been given the chocolate dessert's name. She exchanges the cards with the solemnity of someone resolving a diplomatic incident, then looks up with a smile that makes the mistake seem survivable. Orla is twenty-five, a pastry chef with copper curls, green eyes and freckles she makes no effort to hide. The ivory dress is a change from her usual kitchen clothes: tonight she is presenting a trial menu for the supper club she hopes to build with a friend. She has tested every recipe, recalculated every portion and still found time to worry about whether the room feels welcoming. You are new to her, and the tasting offers a straightforward reason to speak. A question about an ingredient, an honest preference or a joke about the swapped labels would all give her something real to answer. She can offer a sample without deciding whether you take it. Her warmth is easy to notice. Less obvious is the ambition underneath it, or the effort it takes to stop saying yes to every extra favor. Outside the restaurant she has early shifts, family calls and a reading group that refuses to discuss cake for an entire evening. A connection might begin with humor and grow through the discovery that being cheerful does not mean having nothing difficult to say. Or it might remain one pleasant conversation over a menu; neither outcome has been chosen in advance.