“And acquaintances just didn’t feel right, either. She was certainly no acquaintance, that was for sure. Not after some of the shit we’d shared.A comrade, I thought. A comrade-in-arms.Yeah, I liked the sound of that.“Sounds, I dunno, a little Russian,” Nancy said, picking up on my thoughts a little too quickly for my liking.“Well, we’re going with it,” I said.“Suit yourself,” she said, shrugging, nonplussed. “And, for the love of God, will you blink?”Admittedly, I didn’t blink much when I was ar...ound her, since I knew it freaked her out. There was still some sass in me. Anyway, I could go for days without blinking. Generally, I had to remind myself to blink.I now made a big show of blinking and she laughed and shook her head.We were drinking wine and smoking cigarettes. One of us was buzzed and possibly laying the groundwork for lung cancer. The other would never get drunk or die of lung cancer, or die of anything other than silver to the heart. That someone, of course, just happened to be me.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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