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that the peeing woman’s blind trust had provoked her:
Sashaa sees her walet
get it,” Coz, her therapist, said), and take the fucking thing.
the challenge became not taking the wallet but leaving
Sasha & Coz want to changep the chalenge to not taking it.
She’d plucked it from the woman’s bag and slipped it into her own small handbag,
She and the wallet’s owner had never seen each other.
Bennie Salazar, her old boss,
She worked out daily and avoided the sun. Her online profiles all listed her as twenty-eight.
35 y/o really
“You’re aware of how the theft makes you feel,” Coz said. “To the point where you remind yourself of it to improve your mood. But do you think about how it makes the other person feel?”
“And how did you feel?” Coz asked quietly. “About having taken it from the plumber you pitied?”
She felt bad.
Sasha’s father, who had disappeared when she was six.
they were writing a story of redemption, of fresh beginnings and second chances. But in that direction lay only sorrow.
it was near Sow’s Ear Records, where she’d worked for twelve years as Bennie Salazar’s assistant.
The LassiMo
This is a bathtub-in-the-kitchen apartment, right?”
Rob, Sasha’s friend who had drowned in college,
The shame memories began early that day for Bennie,
Then, Stop/Go had seemed like an excellent bet; the sisters were young and adorable,
But the sisters were pushing thirty,
his executive producer, Collette, informed Bennie now,
The Mother Superior leaned forward slightly, tilting her head in a way that must have triggered something in Bennie, because he lurched across the sill and kissed her on the mouth:
She was appaled.He'd never recorded the nuns
The divorce from Stephanie? The battle over Christopher? Having recently turned forty-four?
Benny lost sex drive
glanced at Sasha’s breasts, which had become the litmus test he used to gauge his improvement. He’d lusted after her for most of the years she’d worked for him,
Bennie and his high school gang—Scotty and Alice, Jocelyn and Rhea—none of whom he’d seen in decades (except for a disturbing encounter with Scotty
to his fourth grader.
Benny's son Chris
The Will to Divulge, Dr. Beet called this impulse, and had exhorted Bennie to write down the things he wanted to confide,
Stephanie didn’t approve of Chris drinking coffee—reasonable,
Ex-wife
Betrayal Bonding, Dr. Beet called this, and like the Will to Divulge, it was on the list of no-no’s.
Doing something his ex didnt approve
Chandra was the older one, Louisa the younger. Louisa’s daughter, Olivia,
“You’re Bennie Salazar! This is the music business.
Did he really think the kid would tell Stephanie about the gold? No. And that was his alert: Betrayal Bonding.
his mentor, Lou Kline, telling him in the nineties that rock and roll had peaked
Nostalgia was the end—everyone knew that. Lou had died three months ago, after being paralyzed from a stroke.
we go to Alice’s house. Scotty drives his pickup,
Still, if it’s Bennie and me
Rhea
Scotty and Bennie right behind her. They’re both fascinated by Alice, but it’s Bennie who entirely loves her. And Alice loves Scotty, of course.
Jocelyn and I come last.
Tatum, who wears a different color Danskin every day, or Wayne, who grows sinsemilla in his actual closet, or Boomer, who’s always hugging everyone since his family did EST.
Scotty is magnetic. And I say this as someone who does not love him.
Playing the guitar
Jocelyn and I write all the lyrics and work out the tunes with Bennie and Scotty.
where the cholos hang out,
go to Jocelyn, and she looks at me and goes, Rhea, Bennie’s a cholo.
The good news is, rich girls won’t go with cholos. So he’ll never get Alice, period-the-end.
She has a beautiful half-Chinese face. It makes a difference.
Jocelyn
she recognized one of the leather boys hugging outside the White Swallow and it was her dad,
Jocelyn
Lou is a music producer
Gave Jocelyn a ride when she was hitchhiking. Had sex, she loves him.
Joel is AP everything and he’s applied to Harvard, so I guess his dad isn’t taking any chances.
Everybody, this is Marty.”
Bennies friend
Rolph is talking to his older sister, Charlene, who despises her real name.
Likes Charle.
Father Lou record pfoducdr. Giflffidnd Mindy
Lou is one of those men whose restless charm has generated a contrail of personal upheaval that is practically visible behind him: two failed marriages and two more kids back home in LA, who were too young to bring on this three-week safari.
The safari is a new business venture of Lou’s old army buddy, Ramsey,
Albert, who works for Ramsey, had to go and find her.
