{kurt and courtney}

5-shopping

There’s just been an earthquake-but Courtney and Kurt don’t notice.
They are too busy shopping.

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Kurt is excited-this store, American Rag,which is huge and specializes in authentic vintage clothes mixed with clothes that are new but appear to be vintage,has an enormous collection of used jeans in very small sizes.

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He is making his way through the rack very,very slowly.
"I got him to wear boxers,"Courtney says,helping him to find his size.
"You can’t believe how tacky he was. He wore bikinis.Colored.
Just a tacky thing."

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Kat has stolen a lot from me,
she says,hitting on one of her very favorite themes.
"Dresses.Lyrics.Riffs.Guitars.Shoes.
She even went after Kurt.
That was the last straw.

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A lot of the anti-Courtney factions say, 'And she’s not even pretty.'

Here’s this new rock star-Kurt-and he’s supposed to be married to a
model, and he’s married to me.

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This delights her, and she takes her stack of dresses over to Kurt, who is still carefully looking at each pair of jeans.

He seems in a trancelike state, and the salespeople,who all recognize him, keep their distance.

Isn’t he pretty? she says.
Kurt doesn’t seem to hear her.
We go out once in a while and women look at him like they’re starving.

Kurt continues to move through the rack in slow motion.
A lot of people want a piece of that new fame thing,she says,
I can understand that.

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