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          Why aren't you responding?

        Are these letters slipping out of your mailbox and down the sewer? I hope not. Wouldn't want some rat reading them and thinking I was madly in love.

          The funeral is in a day.

       God help me, I really don't want to slip, but it would be so, so easy. There are so many ways to backtrack ten steps. For one, my mom hasn't (yet) put a lock on the medicine cabinet; one bottle of that cough syrup and I can be higher than the sycamore tree in our front yard.

          But I'd never do that.

          I'm the 'good' kid now.

          All that shit from before? That's behind me.

          Right.

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