“November Rain” is playing in the bar. Fuckin love this song, man, she always said. It’s sadness porn. Skanky, melodramatic sadness porn. But we both knew it meant something more. Both knew that if you were a child, and you watched TV in a room by yourself as we did, saw this video, heard this song, it struck something primal and private in you, the sense of being at your most alone in the anticipation of adult pain, a gray future memory. It was reassuring to be with someone else while you listened, so you were no longer the only one in the room, could be reassured that your adult life was not
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