“Love is an honorable thing to base a life upon, Addo says, swabbing the crumbs off his face with the back of his hand. “What that’s not what you’ve got here, because love is like an amazing Bordeaux, or properly aged Gouda, or pickles. It’s got to have time to ferment on a shelf in a quiet chamber, and then to be proven good, despite itself.” He adds, “What you’ve got right now is more like a cheese stick... with some moonshine and cucumbers.”