A patron arrives, says, Tell me something. You reach across the desk and pull him toward you, bear hug him a second and then take him into your lap, stroke his forehead, whisper facts in his ear. The climate of Chad is tropical in the south, desert in the north. Americans consumed 6.2 gallons of tea per capita in 1989. Statistical Abstract of the United States.
Synecdoche is a literary device meaning the part for the whole, as in crown heads of Europe.
I love you. I could find you British Parliamentary papers, I could track down a book you only barely remember reading. We own that book, we subscribe to that journal, Elvis Presley's first movie was called Love Me Tender. I liked the idea of taking care of things. I like being able to counteract that stinginess by giving people free things all day long.