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in the shimmering heat, the rarefied air, found that this made sense to him

Russ felt powerless against Wanda’s plangency

“Not necessarily. It isn’t hard to hide a drug habit if you’re sedulous about the protocols.”

The whole notion of coolness was puerile.

Same thing with her long, straight, shining hair, which was of a richer color than the slightly false-seeming yellow of his own: she had the platonic teen-girl hair to which other girls compared their own invidiously