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~Cat

Froe you for your petty grudges I’h school for putting Tucker Aest asshole on the teaainst Pacific Beach High

From: Catherine M

Sent: 12:21 am, March 29

Please tell iveable offense

From: Reid C

Sent: 12:26 am, March 29

You know, I didn’t, but that’s because when I was 16, I was 6’2” and weighed approxi shitty about Tucker he’d know and the fear alone of his like toothpicks

Froave me the birds and bees talk, but he did pull me aside when I was thirteen and show e until an unfortunate night (one which we shall not discuss again) where I had a bit tooin front of me at the shuffleboard table at a bar Which is why I’m banned for life at the Goat Hill Tavern in Costa Mesa

From: Reid C

Sent: 12:36 am, March 29

It’s hard these days to find a wo seriously

Fro ht Does this explain why I’ app? Maybe

From: Reid C

Sent: 12:59 arad school, there were ainto our careers, our worlds are getting so hout the day, I seelike this, or join an intra lessons, I’ apps don’t ically savvy Right?

Froht! And I didn’t mean it like that But I think it is fair to say that I tend to focus on, shall we say, the low-hanging life-fruit: getting n the e on a daily basis

I wonder whether I’ht person yet, but because I’ht, I had the ood ine who that man is Someone who likes to watch television from 2004 and drink beer and make fun of each other? Okay, sure But is that the stuff that lifelong relationships are made of? I honestly don’t think so, but I don’t even have a cat to ask for input

Chapter eight

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There’s a standard set of warnings I have to give Ed and Alex whenever we begin the final approach to my childhood home First, do not hit on my little sister Second, the downstairs toilet runs, so le the lever after you flush And third, please don’t ask my dad if you can try on his prosthetic arm

The first and third situations have happened each of the dozen or so times my friends have accompanied me home Dad lost his arm in a machine accident out on the vineyard when he was seventeen; for whatever reason, the prosthetic fascinates Ed and Alex It’s got a hook at the end that opens or closes depending on the angle, and the first few ti turns trying to pick up randos around the house To be fair, Dad half pushes it on them because he thinks it’s hilarious—probably also because it drives Moh she’s my sister, I am aware that Rayme is beautiful—it’s impossible to be unaware of this At twenty-five, she’s six feet tall and could give Wonder Wouarded charuy friend—and a fair share of female friends, too—has had a crush on her at one point or another Ed wants to marry her, Alex has far less honorable intentions, and even Millie has admitted that if she were a lesbian, she would one hundred percent hit on her Only Chris seeold eyes—which I’m sure is directly related to why Rayme seems to try just a little harder to earn his attention

There’s also the No Streaking reminder, but, honestly, you’d think by this point that one would be implied