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"So, you know girls No more Deadzone, no irls are like that"

"Sisters don’t count," Luke counters, and before I can argue, he says, "Hey, did you know Mike broke up with Danica?"

I almost choke onDeadzone last night, and--"

"You were playing with Mike?"

"We play all the time But"--I can hear the frustration in my brother’s voice--"can you just listen?"

"Yeah," I say, doing et how it ca to tell hio out with you--"

"You didn’t," I gasp, and Luke practically growls at rowlto stop interrupting hio out with, but he told me he already likes someone else He said she’s really set in there anyway"

"‘Get in there’?" I ask, and Luke acts like I’et hih or lecture hi his own business "And ould I do that?"

"Don’t you ever want to get married?" Luke asks, and this tih intowhen I say, "Married?"

"You’re twenty-three,"wheel

"Right Twenty-three"

"Don’t you want kids?"

"Luke!"

"I’ to find another guy as good as Mike"