Keys sadly watches the couple retreat as, arms locked together, they head into the drizzling night for some more shopping.
"The ear is in the eye of the beholder," another employee tells Keys by way of consolation.
Though it's still his first week at HMV, Keys already seems at home recommending music.
He accepted HMV's job offer only a few days before. He went into the store looking for a job, and received an interested phone call the very next day.
The terms of employment: 38 hours a week, $7 an hour, until the holiday season is over.
After that, Keys has no idea what will happen.
What he wants to avoid is a return to the way he lived as recently as November. After Keys lost his job at a Davis Square bakery, he says he "flipped out" and fell into an old pattern of heavy drinking, too depressed to look for a new job.
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