“Omigod.” Meredith perks up suddenly. “You don’t know because you’ve been gone, but Kate Fullerton ran over Jake Smalls with her truck at a field party because he said she smelled like week-old period. But it was just his foot, and it was, like, real muddy so he didn’t get hurt too bad.” “That’s a shame,” I say, to which Kavita adds, “Preach.” Meredith keeps going, telling me all the things that went on in my absence, what people said and did, the world that kept going without me in it, stuff that normally I might tell her doesn’t matter, that I don’t care. But this is my life, and these are
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