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Dan had been so bone-deep sure that he was going to have to leave Casey that he had, in effect, mentally reconciled himself to the idea. There was something to it, he was pretty sure, and he said so to Abby: something to the idea of reconciliation, something to smoothing over all the hollow, pitted scars in his soul with warm beach sand. He’d bake in the sun until all the regrets had baked out, like alcohol from a rum cake.
“Don’t you mean rum balls?”
“No, I’m pretty sure I mean cake.”
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16 Jun 2026
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It wasn’t that he didn’t know. Everyone knew, he thought sometimes; depending on his mood the thought was either bitter and mean, or indulgently affectionate.
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16 Jun 2026
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Dana took a deep breath and pressed her fingers to her temples. “Who started it?”
“Nobody,” said Casey, at the same time as Dan said, “He did.”
Casey shot Dan a sidelong glare and muttered, “Way to throw me under the bus, there, buddy.”
“Maybe if you hadn’t started it,” Dan hissed back.
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16 Jun 2026
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14 Jun 2026
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“I don’t know,” said Kim to Dave, on their side of the booth, “it’s just inevitable, isn’t it?”
“What is?” asked Casey. He had a nice, quiet buzz on; Anthony’s was seasonally appropriate, if a touch juvenile, with black tinsel draped everywhere and a skeleton in a corner behind the bar. Jack must be bumping into it constantly.
“That if you know somebody long enough, sooner or later you’re going to get a crush on them.”
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13 Jun 2026