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And if you were a National Geographic story—” Choate slid sidewise in the booth, crab-style, and started out of the booth. What I’m sayin’ here, I was distraught. I wound a smaller towel around my wet hair. Exactly what I wanted.

That evening she doubled her fist and gave him such a blow beneath his rib cage, that his eyeswatered and his side hurt for almost an hour. He was dressed in his usual-sloppy as hell, as if he'd slept in the brown suit, a yellow shirt with the collar on one I waited a second, but he didn't add anything. Their hands on mine kept me from slipping off the edge of the bed.