The Facts of Life

[susannalk]

I'm finally reading Dodie Bellamy's The Letters of Mina Harker. When I get to my MUNI stop and look up from the book, a round-faced, bearded young man is yawning and his incisors look extra sharp. My lungs hurt a little because I smoked 1-1/2 cigarettes last night at Amy's going away party at Zeitgeist. I got there before any of my friends so I

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[uridium]

*blink* *blink*

Wait a minute.

You smoke?

[susannalk]

On occasion. Don't you remember when the Unitarians got me started on cloves?

[uridium]

Oh yes, I do remember. I've just never been able to integrate the information into my mental portrait of you. Every time you say it, it's a shock.