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Wewalk to Canal Street— hands and laughing and kissing and sing-shouting, “Mommy’s just jealous it’s the BEASTIE BOYS,” and like that we’re there and we’re skipping down the steps into the station So to you, all you who pass by? Lamentations 1:12 and I think, No, Lord, whoever the hell You are, this is not nothing toone of those tourists in Chinatown and I could buy a shirt that says, “I Survived the All-Nighter” or “Nick & Norah Went to the Marriott Marquis and All I Got Was This Lousy Shirt,” as if the experience never happened without the T-shirt to prove it

Nick slides the MetroCard through the turnstile and we hear a train approaching and it’s early Sundayit will be before another train coh He passes the card to h, the machine reads Insufficient Fare, because Nick must have just used the last value of the card

“Fuck!” I say

“Fuck!” he says

Nick puts his hand on mine from the other side of the turnstile He says, “Don’t worry about it, just jump over”

I hesitate even though I knoavering could cost us the approaching train If I make this jump, then this is real, he is real I will have broken the law for hiether forever, outlaws, like Bonnie and Clyde And look how that worked out for them

“C’ain, I think, Oh, poor Nick I irl, but I am also a pain in the ass I know this It’s like he has no idea what he’s setting himself up for I should just call the car service for o

“Norah?”

If I do this, it will be like ju Terrifying It’s only a fking turnstile, but what if I don’t make it to the other side Some people never make it out of the mosh alive

The deafening screech of train brakes announces the train is in the station

Nick says, “Are we in this or not?”

To throw reat divide will be a leap of faith

I grab hold of his warm hand Deep breath

Ready

Set

Jump

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