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"I knew Bobby wasn’t faithful He was sleeping with big uy or underage girl-girls who attended Spence or Chapin or Sacred Heart-and if he got in trouble with their irls you had to be a certain weight and ht in order to fk Bobby Hughes If you got on that scale and passed, then he fked you"

My arht another joint a crew irls disappeared or OD’d or they ’had accidents,’ and by this ti down on the Concorde when I would see the curvature of the earth and the clouds seemed hundreds of e aht of my fa teenage girls and young women who realized they would never look like ry letters froht mothers essays by wo lives but it didn’t touch me because no one we kneas real people just seemed fake and Bobby liked that I felt this way It ’helped,’ he said and anyway, in the end I was too faains its co strings of words, how she ht of the Bottoement of fake passports, soldiers of fortune from Thailand, Bosnia, Utah, new social security numbers, heads struck with such force they broke open as easily as soft-boiled eggs, a form of torture where the victim has to s a rope "In Bo rapidly, eyes cla out of the slits "In Boh and then starts shrieking about a serial killer Bobby befriended in Berlin and I hop out of bed and tell the director "Hey, it’s over" and while they pack up to leave Ja at the sheets, so out na in the 8th or 16th under a hazy sheen of floating mist the filrapher have set up a si "gaily" to a black Citroen waiting at the curb that will take us to a party at Natacha But this crew doesn’t know that earlier this afternoon the filht at Hotel Costes has been let into the house by Bobby and has spent the last three hours laying cable, setting up lights, fil unresolvable argument between Ta the old Bread song "It Don’t Matter to Me," and they nowroorip and the black-bearded director -all conferring with a cinerapher who resembles Brad Pitt in Johnny Suede and upstairs in Bentley’s rooht blackout curtains, peering out at the other fil updates over the ht between Ta the French premier’s son and predictably doors are slaain

I’ a Prada suit totally unaware of who helped ica chairs in the living rooreen tie someone chose for me On the TV screen, with the sound off, reruns of "Cheers" followed by "Home Improvement" run endlessly on a tape someone stuck into the VCR A PA hands me a book of notes that Bobby ated, floor plans of the Ritz have been reproduced, an outline was printed frora experts preoccupied with verifying signatures are interviewed, entries fro a trip he es about plastic explosives, the best wiring, the correct tiht container, the best detonator

I’ "Semtex is an odorless, colorless plastic explosive" I’ "It takes 6 oz of Se a profile on a newly manufactured plastic explosive called Reround" in the US and is still unavailable in Europe I’ a list of Re the words Bobby has scrawled on the side of a page: More useful than Semtex? and then tords that I stare at until they ica chair and walk purposefully into the kitchen to