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touch. But I put on my pants anyway, being careful not to 1
do any damage to myself with the zipper.
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“If you go now you can’t come back,” she said.
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I didn’t answer. I didn’t really care.
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She didn’t follow me from the bedroom. Her room-5
mate, Robin Talese, was sitting in the living-room chair. I 6
wondered if the chubby white girl had listened to our 7
hollering out love earlier on. From the way she was star-8
ing at my crotch, I was pretty sure that she had.
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“Where have you been?” Anniston Bennet shouted when 12
I returned to the cellar at about 10:00 that night.
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“I had car trouble,” I said. “Flat tire outside of Bridge-14
hampton. Sorry.”
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I handed him a Kentucky Fried Chicken four-piece 16
meal that came with a biscuit, corn on the cob, cole slaw, 17
and a root beer. The large paper cup wouldn’t fit under 18
the bars, so I creased it and poured the soda into a squat 19
glass he’d used for lunch.
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“You can’t leave me down here all day without a meal,”
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Anniston said in an angry but soft tone.
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“You want out?” I asked. “You can leave anytime.”
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He didn’t have an answer to that.
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“You want the light to eat by?” I asked.
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“Please,” he said.
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I left without sweating for the first time. And I slept the S 27
whole night through.
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