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With her eyes closed, Rocky is stretched out on the couch while a wolasses sits above her head

“I’ht now?” I ask from my spot in the leather chair across from the couch

A boisterous laugh shoots out of Rocky’s lips, and I don’tbelly bounces with the e to reach out and touch her stoh from the woman with the tweezers as she pulls her hands away from Rocky’s face deters me

“Shoot” Laughter proizes “I’ on my lashes is a bad idea, huh?”

“A very bad idea,” the woman ansithout hesitation

“Consider me a statue from here on out”

“Perfect” The woets back to work “Thank you”

“I’m not sure if you know this,” I say ironically, “but we already coenetic makeup”

Rocky snorts again, but this tithe and luscious without mascara”

“Very interesting I had no idea that was a thing”

“Oh yeah Big thing Not even just with celebrities There are probably women you’ve dated before who had them, but you didn’t realize”

“What other secrets do you know?” I ask cheekily “I obviously haveritual”

“Well, there’s a lot to it—more than I can teach you in a day, that’s for sure But you should probably just question everything If it’s tanned, it’s probably naturally white If it’s curly, it’s probably naturally straight If it’s srows more than your nearest national forest”

“Jesus,” Iwo for our sake?”

She laughs again, and Vera sighs ize