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Sex and sleep

Is that all it was to him? All it meant?

Am I so terrible that he had to avoid me?

Well

Plot twist: now he has no choice!

I thought ere developing a friendship, but even that couldn’t withstand the physical turn our relationship took

So much for maturity

“Did you just call him Ro, just et her in the sack They only pretended to be gentlemen”

The four of us cast furtive glances around the table, Jack’s eyes wide as saucers and Eliza’s ready with a laugh

“You use the word da the fareat aunt “Blokes back in the day were bored—they didn’t have Netflix”

Aunt Myrtle shakes her head “Netflix is the code word for sex”

“No, Netflix is the code word for ‘I want to stay home and be lazy’”

“Well we didn’t have that when I was young We didn’t even have phones or computers All I had was a Jack in the Crack”

Rohs “Don’t you mean a Jack in the Box?”

“Had one of them, too” The old wousto at the ht to come

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ROMAN

There is no talkingus stay; already she is a flurry of activity, bustling froh warm blankets and pillows, toothbrushes and toothpaste, and towels for the guest bathroom

It’s as if the king and queen of England have arrived

She is positively tickled we’ve been marooned

Snowed in, as it were, a cliché if ever there was one

We shouldn’t be driving, obviously—the snow is co down so heavily I can’t see the street in front of the house, and in the distance, the telltale orange blinking lights froh the low visibility

Another thing I cannot talkme with Lilly Mom thinks we’re in a relationship so naturally she’d pop us in my bedroom; I certainly can’t tell her we broke up because:

That’s a lie