Maureen looked fearless peering over the crowd. She wore new earrings tonight, too, gold balls the size of grapes hanging off dangling chains. They looked expensive. We hadn’t been able to get ahold of her for practice earlier, so it’d just been Brenda and me in the garage, worried if Maureen would even show up tonight. But of course she had. She was hungry for these people to love her, and they would once they heard us play. After what I’d seen last night, I’d expected her to be off today, weepy maybe, but she acted just like her regular self, casual and confident, and she was dressed like a
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