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"You&039;re probably all wondering why I&039;ve called you here" I tried, and failed, not to stare at Jessica&039;s gigantic gut

"Not really," The Thing with the Gut replied "You&039;re back frorumbled "Gossip is what old ladies do after church"

"Gossip is what you do, every day And given the way you can&039;t not stare at our kid," Nick added, sitting besidecasually across her shoulders, "I&039;aped I couldn&039;t help it Every word I had ever uttered since the age of twenty-nine ht out ofopen, and prayed s in the mansion were dead on one of a hundred sills and not flying around looking for so to fly into "I, uh, well, that&039;s a real tiht out and ader to explain"

Wordlessly, they jerked their thu me stare and flop still more, Jessica added, "You want the CliffsNotes version?"

"Are you two done? Sounds like you&039;re done Thank God you&039;re done" Another roo kitchen door open andwith strawberry-banana soodness!

He poured hie where Tina kept her vodka, debated leaping off the wagon, decided to cling to said wagon for another hour, turned away froe, and plopped onto one of the kitchen chairs around our big, ooden table You could slaughter and dress aWe h

A quick word about Tina&039;s vodka collection Like all va my code for less than a dozen) she tried to keep it at bay with frozen drinks made from potatoes She also adored variety Not that you could tell froirl-bait irls or was bait to people who liked-argh, focus!

Anyway, in our freezer lurked cinnamon-flavored vodka and bacon-flavored vodka Ditto chili pepper and bison grass and bubble gum Go ahead and barfI nearly did

"Now that you two&039;ve finished your unholy banging," Marc began, taking a monster slurp, "tell reat? Do they really say &039;prithee&039;? And how come Laura&039;s not here?"

"Laura didn&039;t come back with me" Even as I said it I realized it eird "I mean, she made a doorway to here for me, but she stayed in hell Or made herself a doorway and went to her apartment fros I most cherish about you is your attention to detail"

"Yeah, well, I&039;ll cherish you for shutting up now I&039;h if anyone needed one, the Antichrist qualified

Marc was gulping his s hiotten in the habit of bolting liquid ulp down the equivalent of two pints of strawberries in three on, he drank all his meals

It was an indicator of how little I wanted to talk about the future and the past by how interested I was letting"Uh, so, how are the AA ?"

He cocked an eyebrow at me "Don&039;t take my inventory, Betsy"

"I don&039;t knohat that means," I admitted over Nick&039;s snort

"It means addicts in recovery knohat they&039;re supposed to do to stay clean and whether or not they&039;re doing it They dislike being reminded of it"

"Is that what you are?" Sinclair asked with interest "In recovery?"

"Nah" Slurp "People in recovery go to s I&039;m a drunk"

I clapped a hand over rinned at my insensitive titter

I&039;d never understand why he couldn&039;t find soeous, he had true green eyes (d&039;you kno rare that is? True green, not hazel?) He had black hair, currently cut brutally short into, I&039;m sorry to report, the Woody Harrelson He was in his usual outfit of scrubs and his iPod He was fa to heartbeats with one ear and They Might Be Giants in the other

I know They Might Be Giants? More like they ," Marc was saying, "to another day and such And I can&039;t take credit for thatI think Stephen King said it first"

"Margaret Mitchell did"

"Not the another-day line The addicts-go-to-AA line"

"Like you even read Gone With the Wind," I said Iabout stupid crap instead of the future, right? "Ha!"

Don&039;t getI didn&039;t think there was much funny about addiction, outside of Sandra Bullock in 28 Days And I won&039;t deny being mystified by 28 Days Latershe was nowhere to be found in that one

But Marc, so open about his sexuality, job, and love life, eirdly closed about his drinking There were ti every day And tio for ain") he appreciated zero interference, advice, or tough love

Not that that would stop me! But I sort of hadco That Made Her Eat Strawberry-banana Smoothies (she hated bananas), the Book of the Dead, and Satan doing her I&039; Marc unasked-for advice was onhi

Yeah, I know Even as I was tellinga word Tell you what: if you can&039;t fool yourself, you can&039;t fool anybody