“So nothing happened between you and Matt when you started dating Debbie?” I hated the way she asked this. I hated that this mattered to her. I hated the way she used the word dating. It suggested a different Susan than the numb, uncaring beauty I had become so enamored of in the past few weeks. It suggested that there were rules we needed to follow and a kind of propriety I thought Susan had abandoned. She was confirming we were in high school, where there were football games and assemblies and prom kings and Homecoming queens and boys didn’t fuck each other and everyone was faithful and
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