Day: May 6, 2016

            He did not want to see her and comforted himself with the thought that she did not want to see him either. It was too much!   
            It.  
            He did not want to think about that, so he thought about the summer of seventy-four or seventy-five instead, when they had both read The Great Gatsby and all summer long imagined themselves very bohemian, very 1920s avant-garde,people of affairs, perhaps, or at least people not shocked by affairs.  
            Yet for the Halloween party that year they did not dress as Jay and Daisy, or even Scott and Zelda, but chose Bonnie and Clyde because she had been seduced by Theodora Van Runkle’s costumes on Faye Dunaway’s flawless frame.   
            In particular, the beret.   
            He had gone along because he dug Warren Beatty. …

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