He says, I need to go to Vegas. She puts some tofu concoction into his mouth and kisses him and he pulls away and says, That won’t work now.

The walk to the bar became a kind of march of military precision. They didn’t realize it until a kid saluted them. They were really thirsty.

So I walked all the way home from the bar, the drink sloshing around in my belly like waves of toilet water. And then I think I fell in love