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"It’s not that It’s"

It’s Nina, dammit Say it!

"Gen, the day we met, just hours before we met, I broke up with a woman--or I should say, she broke up withis, I cared for this woht that the hole she left in my heart could easily be filled, but it just isn’t true You could drive a truck through the hole, it’s that big You’re very sh and very considerate and very beautiful, but in the end--I’d love to spend ti, but in the end"

"In the end I’d be the rebound girl," G K said

"Soo running to her"

"It’s not very fair to you"

"At least you’re being honest Most guys wouldn’t Most guys would take advantage"

"Don’t think I haven’t considered it"

"I want to thank you anyway"

"For what?"

"For all those ‘verys’ you recited before Especially the very set credit for that"

"I’m sorry, Gen"

"Don’t be But you know, McKenzie, if that hole you’re talking about ever shrinks to a eable size--you knohere I live"

"Yes, I do"

I didn’t feel like returning to an erabbed some fast food--which wasn’t particularly fast and didn’t taste much like food--and drove over to the Coffee Grounds coffeehouse in Falcon Heights and bought e, and Stacy, the pretty college girl as fronting the group, gave me a little wave as I claimed a small table in the back She did this partly, I’ure of a man--just ask G K--but mostly because I have been known to stuff a fifty into the tip jar I waved back