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First published as an ebook i
by Weidenfeld &
The paperback edition fir
by Weidenfeld &
An imprint of the Orion PC li H Vi
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my family was one hundred perce
back, and I didnt fit in real well wi
I used to hang out with this guy na
Bean was a couple years older th
of high school to sell weed, and he
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kept saying he creeped her out, t
him. I said she was crazy, everyb
and Tommy, this guy I was sort
whole time. Finally I told her that
her these butterf ly earrings she lik
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to ourselves. So we were all sweaty
clothes when Bean came walking
with a look on his face Id never see
We need to leave, he said.
Why? I asked. Whats the ma
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fend for themselves, and took a job
taurant in Charlottesville.
Id been working there about
news that theyd found Staceys b
shore of Moncove Lake about a
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Allison was my best friend bac
is my fiance, Sarah Beth.
Sarah Beth extended her hand
on the other one. Bean had come u
ing a sweater and a collared shirt H
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I kept my back against the kitc
in quickly if I needed to.
Because Ive been keeping tra
moved here, and I knew where yo
see you
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Excuse me? I said. But she was Bean was actually my best friend i
him that because in third grade hed g
and had to go to the emergency room
that he had to stand in the back of th
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calling him a pussy when he couldnpid high school he couldnt wait to e
played football and shot deer with th
on his locker. About how all the gi
guys instead of him Beans rages w
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and saw Bean, panting, an awful guwrapped my arms around him and he
it seemed so important to let him kno
would still be his friend.
Bean and I didnt avoid each other
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to get away from himthat night leave. But also our fucking was less
and I came, and afterward he held m
kind of stillness. The next day I left
My first days in New York were
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nothing had happened, like he was juwhere I came from, that Id once had
a fucked-up cat and a life that, even
happy, still made a little bit of sense.
still he hadnt called I started wanti
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mom and dad and my sisters and thought they didnt at the time. Bu
story and have everybody know my
could fool peopleusually Brooklyn
told them about West Virginia I ha
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and wound his arm all the way arounside of my left breast.
Sure, I said. Ill be in your movi
Good, she said. Ill come by nex