You're Not From Around Here, Part 5

The conclusion to the Koreanish summer fiction serial. For those just arriving, for the rest of the story, here are parts 1, 2, 3 and 4.

"And what was I going to do, marry the town gay? No."

I laughed at that against my will. I was trying to be mad at her, for not telling me about my son. But I was too happy to see her. Katie still held her cigarette the same way. She looked at me with a smile. "No. It was never going to be like that." She flicked her ash. "You're high if you think otherwise."

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