Del watched Randy gag on the cigarette in between hits off the oxygen mask. “Hey,” Del finally said, “remember that book I used to read all the time? Dorcie and Cole and…shit, I can’t remember the other one.” “Holly,” Randy said. “Her name was Holly. She was practically a virgin.” “Yeah, that’s right. Jesus, I can’t believe you remember her name.” “Now that Dorcie was something else,” Randy said. “God, I wish I’d met her when I was benching six hundred. I’d have tore that up.” “Christ, Randy, it was just a book. I mean, those people weren’t real or anything.” “Oh, no, you’re wrong, man,” Randy
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