And Matt Kellner, even though he might have been numbed with marijuana and was having a sexual relationship with me for over a year, was deemed a good kid with decent grades who kept to himself, living in some kind of underwater fantasy world: stoned in the pool was where he resided in a marijuana haze and that was all he ever needed; this was what gave Matt sustenance, the late-afternoon sun, the scent of chlorine, the shade of the palms above the hammock he rested in, the Specials singing “Ghost Town” coming from a pool house lined with surfboards and an aquarium that stretched along a wall
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