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The awkward ways these men held their bodies, and how the paper trembled in their hands, were things no high school girl should ever see
"Good night, good night, good night," they sing, knocking against one another purposefully on the stairs. The three of them are younger when they are together. They regress.
Pallace came to see me but found the floor of the cottage blistering hot. Try and she might, she couldn't stand on it for more than a minute. She arrived with a bottle of Orangina from the cafeteria, a bag of pretzels: small offerings to lay on the altar of guilt.
In retrospect, my inability to put it together was its own sort of gift. I would understand what they were doing soon enough, at which point I would finally understand what I had done to Veronica. Veronica had such a small part in the story and I still loved her more than everyone at Tom Lake put together. She stayed with me after the rest of them had faded, maybe because we remember the me people we hurt so much mroe clearly than the people who hurt us.
It was years later that Joe told me how he'd thought his heart would stop when he saw Duke there in the middle of the road, holding Emily.
"Good night, good night, good night," they sing, knocking against one another purposefully on the stairs. The three of them are younger when they are together. They regress.
Pallace came to see me but found the floor of the cottage blistering hot. Try and she might, she couldn't stand on it for more than a minute. She arrived with a bottle of Orangina from the cafeteria, a bag of pretzels: small offerings to lay on the altar of guilt.
In retrospect, my inability to put it together was its own sort of gift. I would understand what they were doing soon enough, at which point I would finally understand what I had done to Veronica. Veronica had such a small part in the story and I still loved her more than everyone at Tom Lake put together. She stayed with me after the rest of them had faded, maybe because we remember the me people we hurt so much mroe clearly than the people who hurt us.
It was years later that Joe told me how he'd thought his heart would stop when he saw Duke there in the middle of the road, holding Emily.