On everything possible, human beings place a sunny-side-up egg. Most humans think this is great, these are the same kind of humans who rejoice when biting into a doughnut to discover jelly (terrible) or a chocolate truffle to find cherry syrup (terrible). If you request no sunny-side-up egg on your croque madame (married) or croque mademoiselle (no

Wine! It’s the worst! Wine is a liquid people pathologize in the way they talk about it, sell it, in the vessels they put it in. Red wine tastes like a dark-walled library and white wine smells like a woman looking away. IF IT’S TERRIBLE, WHY DO HUMANS DRINK IT? Because, like many things humans enjoy, it frees them from their bodies. Other examples

If they have the right perfume but not in eight ounces—for example, the twelve-ounce bottle—she will not buy it. Even though the twelve-ounce bottle costs less per ounce. They cannot afford to be smart with money.

This emboldens Adina to make the mistake countless writers before her have made. She attempts to write about New York City.

“molti muscoli.”

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How could she have known what a girl’s laughter does to a boy? If she believed the boardwalk T-shirts, a woman was a ball or chain, someone stupid you’re with, someone to lie to so a man can drink beer. If she believed television fathers, women were a constant pain, wanting red roses or a nice dinner out. If she learned how to be a girl from songs,

Adina realizes friendships are reincarnations.

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