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- Page 18 and 19: PART ONE
- Page 20 and 21: THE BEER THIEF I grew up in Dallas,
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on the picnic table out back drinki
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had never read this book. But I und
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passed. “Have you met my new boyf
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But after two beers, I didn’t lik
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THE STRANGER A few months after mov
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past time. Why did he choose her? W
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happens in my memory. In my memory,
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I don’t know how long I sat in th
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order. I had lost so many things th
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enough? As I lay in my hotel bed, c
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THE LIFE YOU’VE ALWAYS WANTED My
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Ten minutes later, the landlord sto
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I had this great idea: I should try
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window with a guy in a white dinner
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BEGINNING The closet in my Manhatta
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PART TWO
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ISN’T THERE ANOTHER WAY? I’ve n
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girl in the foldout chair who was o
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past, but what I could not bear was
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“I’m sorry,” I finally said.
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we’ll never know long enough to l
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EXTREMELY UNCOMFORTABLE FOR THE GRO
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this lunch date with her, in part t
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that unfolded were riveting, eviden
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to exotic locales. But drinking is
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wheels started coming off. Her blac
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BINGE One afternoon, I got an urge
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I couldn’t believe I let that hap
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IN THE EVENINGS, I pulled out a lea
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TEN
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and I understood that I was probabl
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I pulled my profile down the next d
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out come-ons you would never utter
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sat in Jennifer’s bedroom with a
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“I have,” I said, and left it a
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POWER BALLAD People who quit drinki
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newspaper reporter growing up among
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I could get my fingers around. But
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TWELVE
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this side. For so many years, I was
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murky pool, and we stand there like
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awake. I stopped despairing for wha
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and religion will remind you as wel
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