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"Nobody wants to dance with et Sam to dance with you"

"I don’t want you to make someone dance with ht be different if Jericho were here"

"I tried to get him to coic to having a good tie Juice Jazz Baby?"

"They’re five dollars!"

"Come on, Mabesie Live a little It won’t kill you Oh, they’re playing !" Evie dashed out onto the dance floor before Mabel could stop her It probably wasn’t her favorite song; she just needed an excuse to get away and avoid Mabel Sometimes Evie could be so selfish

Mabel saw the drunken Scotty lurching toward her with a sloppy "Heyyy, Maybeline, honey," and ran and hid behind an enor to kill Evie when this evening was finally over

Theta walked the corridors of the club, dragging her fur wrap behind her Sonized her with a "Hey, aren’t you…?" To which Theta would say, "Sorry You must have me confused with another party"

Behind her, a man called out "Betty!" and Theta turned quickly, her heart beating fast But he was calling to a redhead, who yelled back, "Hold your horses! I need the little girls’ rooo home, but she didn’t want to stay, either She wasn’t sure what she wanted except so that made her feel anchored to her life She felt like she could float away at any moment Sure, she had Henry, wonderful Henry He was like a brother to her It was Henry who had saved her life when she’d first co And it was Henry who’d saved her life a second tier for , though she couldn’t begin to put a name on it

A crowd of revelers caromed down the hall, and Theta ducked into the first room she saw It appeared eback chair, she saw that it was occupied by a handsothat he didn’t even notice her

"Must be so hiirl with jet-black hair s him

"Walt Whitman"

"Mmm," Theta said

"I’m a poet myself," Memphis said He held up his sh the pages, opening to a series of numbers written in the back She raised an eyebrow "Doesn’t look like poetry to rabbed the book back He gave her the full-dazzle ssters "I’ that for a friend"

"Mm-hmm"

"My name’s Meirl in a nightclub" Theta blew out a stream of smoke