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"Sir-" the ins i "She’s irlfriend"

"Sir, you should come back later," the , realizing that the room seems totally unlived in I move past the maid to the closet and open it

"Sir, you should wait until-"

I hold up a hand "I said it’s okay," I age, not even any hangers I close the closet door andtable and start opening drawers All of those are e you to leave," theto have to call Security"

Ignoring her, I notice that the wall safe is open and a Prada handbag-nylon with the tradele-is halfway hidden inside As I move toward the safe, behind me the maid walks out of the cabin

Slowly I unclasp the purse, opening it I reach in and it’s basically e hard, the hangover washing back over me intensely, I pull a series of Polaroids out of the envelope

There are eight photographs of e at what looks like a Wallflowers concert: a poster for the band in the background; a sweaty Jakob Dylan holding a red plastic cup behinda azine shoot: hands in the fra upup a ca next to a pool wearing shorts and a vest with no shirt, round everywhere, and in two of the Polaroids it’s bright out and a giant orange sun beats down through se Japanese waitress wearing a sarong, Los Angeles is spread out behind me The other two Polaroids were taken at dusk and Rande Gerber has his arhts tiki torches in the fraazines as the Sky Bar at the recently opened Mondrian Hotel But htly flatter-and ether; the chin is dimpled, more defined; my hair has never been cut so that it parts easily to one side

I’ve never been to a Wallflowers concert

Or had itte Lancoeles

I drop the photographs back in the Prada handbag, because I don’t want to touch them anymore

The bathroolea in here yet; a bath mat is still crumpled by the tub and towels lie damp, oddly stained, in the corner There are no toiletries anywhere, no bottles of shae Then so next to it and I’ around in it htly pink and when Isoft and when I pull ain involuntarily, alar soft-the pinkness is darker, redder

Behind the toilet there’s h to h it they come away streaked with pink as if the blood has been watered down or someone had tried to clean it up in a hurry and failed

Just off to the side of the toilet, embedded in the wall, are two small white objects I pull one of thele in order to extract it, and after inspecting the thing in my hand I turn to the crew There’s an e on the bathrooht

"Ihard, "but this is a fking tooth" And then I’, holding it out to the tooth," I’ain, and then I’m told to race out of the room

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The crew directs me to Security but because there’s not really such an office on board, this scene is shot near the library at a table ed computer terminal, four blank spiral notebooks, an e British actor-who had s and Jane Austen’s E-sits behind thea clerk, pale and nervous and fairly cute as far as English actors playing clerks go