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Because I know the difference between living your life and life happening to you, and they are distinctly different. Living life is making choices—what to wear, when to eat, whether or not to cut your hair. These are the easy decisions we get to make—to have some say or a hand in. Life happening to you is vastly different. It comes by way of a powerful reckoning force that cements your path for better or worse. It’s only in the wake of it that you realize the easy decisions are the only choices you have any real say in. The hard stuff—the really hard stuff—that’s life happening to you.
le président Américain Reagan a été abattu devant un hôtel Hilton à Washington—” US President Reagan was shot in front of a Hilton in Washington—
“We’re not big like them yet ’cause we haven’t hit our growth spurt.” “What’s that?” Barrett asks. “When you get hair in your armpits,” I tell him, “and,” I whisper low, “I heard Uncle Grayson say our balls will drop.” “Drop where?” “I dunno.” I scrunch my nose, wondering where my balls will drop to.
“Well . . . want to be in our club?” Sean asks.
you are the kind of beautiful that drives men crazy.”
What most people aren’t privy to is that my chosen brother lives by his feelings, primarily those of his gut. If there were a way for him to suppress or box his emotions, he wouldn’t survive it. His heart is what fuels him, though he’s an expert at masking that truth.
“Merde,”
Connard.” Jerk.
do you prefer sunrise or sunset?” “Sunset,” he answers quickly. “You?” “Sunset.” I give him honesty. “Because it means I have made it another day.”
“If the crickets chirp twenty-three times in fifteen seconds, you add forty to that, and it gives the current temperature in American degrees. Or very close to.”
what’s the use of having a getaway car if it isn’t used to get away with shit?”
“For our season,”
“Une si belle femme.” So beautiful.
“J’ai besoin de toi . . . I need you . . . Vous êtes la porte d’entrée. You’re my front door. Tu es mon seul moyen de rentrer chez moi. You’re my only way home.”
“It’s crazy where a day can take you”—I
“Re-bonjour mon meilleur ami.” Hello again, my best friend.
“Stop, p-please stop before I p-pee or fart!
“Your laughter heals me.”
You can fruit me anytime you want.”
s’il vous plaît, fuck me senseless.”
“Besides, it’s common knowledge that if you cross into Jennings territory with any ill intent, you won’t have enough time to wonder if you fucked around as you fucking find out
“Putain,” fuck,
“Good night . . . je t’aime, Jean Dominic,”
“No internet,” she states firmly. “That’s just not possible, baby. It’s consuming the world.” “That’s a problem. Mark my words, Soldier, it is evil and will cause much destruction.”
“This is going to be epic,” I muse. “Just know Russell and I will be popping popcorn every night to tune in for this shit show.”
