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Given I haven’t heard anything fro Tealey hasn’t told the I should do, or is this a secret? I can’t iine e’d hide it We’re all friends I’ anotheranother that I’ the torch I’ve carried

Torchit too far

Lantern?

Flashlight works, I lie to myself

Who a?

I thought I’d see Tealey at this group dinner tonight, which e bet on the line I wonder how long’s a reasonable time to stay here?

When Marlons her wine like a shot, I do what any good friend would do I hold er in the air when a server passes by and point at the e he can read my desperation

Marlow says, “I’ havoc on my life Why can’t I have normal parents?”

I ood fun, because she relishes the role, but this time feels different She’s upset

I reach over and aardly nudge her in the arm “I think—”

“Because your mother ran off with an Italian race car driver, that’s why” Bob’s s words cause Marlow to flinch from the impact “That’s when our lives were so-called ‘normal’ and look how that turned out So cal any woman to calm down explains his divorces “You didn’t even like Lorie”

A red wave crawls fro in her face She tightens her mouth, and says, “Don’t tell me to calm down”

“Listen—”

“No, you listen I didn’t dislike Lorie I just don’t bother to get to know the to turn around and divorce them so quickly?”

“The point is, I’m a sucker for a beautiful—”

“Too-young-for-you ht attendants, my friends—”

“I married Deandra, so I think that makes her more my friend than yours”

“Oh, trust h school and one of the few people I thought I could trust Why do you think I left California?”