Twister 2746

She tells him this isn’t love, that her swooning has nothing to do with love but with his carbonara. And he holds up a plate and says, Love.

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Twister 2745

Their drinking is interrupted by tall girls wearing short shorts and then a car goes by blasting some autotune disco. Then they drink again.

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Twister 2744

And they talked endlessly of death and mortality and happenstance. They talked late into the evening. Until the burger joint kicked them out

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Twister 2743

He slumped over and then lay on the ground. A girl came over and kicked him. It wasn’t easy being a minor league mascot in Alabama. In July.

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Twister 2742

They sat by the fire and read their books, engrossed in their respective, disparate worlds. I don’t like how this is going to end, she said.

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Twister 2741

She never quite fell into love with the divorced track & field coach. More like tumbled into it. But she certainly fell out of love quickly

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Twister 2740

She sits at the cash and watches the shoppers, the thin veneer of civilization stripped away by aggressive discounting. She closes the shop.

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Twister 2739

He was a baker with big hands; that fact attracted her greatly. She overlooked his numerous shortcomings. My friends are jealous, she said.

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Twister 2738

And now he was ready to give up, to abandon the pursuit, his bag of tricks exhausted. But she was almost there. Don’t give up, she told him.

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Twister 2737

They drank beer and compared their levels of happiness, but by the end of the evening they were both falling into stinky pits of melancholy.

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