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Merc likes Taking Back Sunday and I like this song, so I hu as I read the back cover of the sci-fi novel

A thousand years after the apocalypse came to Earth and humans built a doh The crashing of furniture lance overNick and Tet apart

Men They are so emotional, it drives me crazy

The next book is called The Abortion

That one h and then I have like an out-of-body vision of h Merc’s bookshelf, laughing at a book called The Abortion, while Tet and Nick try to kill each other

There is no hope for this girl at all Like zero chance of hope I mean, it’s just over I put that book back and walk down the hallway to the bathrooot three bedrooms and two bathrooms, but one bathroom is the laundry room too And it has a door that leads out back

Only a ht now I’ht out and into the late-afternoon sunshine There’s a picnic table down a rolling slope that leads into some woods, so I walk down and cop a squat on the table so I can prop s

One That was certainly a surprise when he showed up in Huntington Beach I’m not sure what Tet has in mind for him, and I’m not sure I even want to know But whatever he does, I don’t think I care too much

I’ ht now He’s the best at what he does And we need the best I’ood killer too And Nick He’s not dead yet, so he has to have a certain skill level

But Tet Now that man is a killer

A shadow forms in front ofdown the hill His , but I can’t hear anything because Nothing At All is blaring inJames is out of his mind" He takes a seat next to me on the table

"That’s not Jaree"

"Why the fuck did he do it? Were you there?"