How was it, talking to Florence face-to-face?” Eli remembered her flushed face as he let her know that they had the books. Her bitterness and resignation as they ironed out the kinks of their deal. “I’d tried to imagine it, you know? How it would happen. What I’d say when I finally spoke to her again.” “Like, in the shower? When you have those forty-minute conversations with yourself?” He gave her a baffled look. “How long are your showers?” “A normal length, shut up.” “In my environmentally conscious, non-shower conversations, I was going to tell her how incredibly shitty my life had been
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