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asked Rich Rage.<br />

"Yes," Beanie answered. "Just a minute."<br />

"I think I found us a place to stay. Something the<br />

matter? You okay?"<br />

"I'll be out in a minute. I'm all right."<br />

"Okeydoke. I'm right by the table."<br />

In the bright light of the bathroom the four ladies sat<br />

or stood in silence. Then Beanie dried her eyes on toilet<br />

paper. "Thank you for caring about me," she told them.<br />

"But I had to go because I had to find out. You know, I<br />

almost lived my whole life and never knew.<br />

Tracy? You know? Could you just leave me here<br />

alone for a minute now? Please?"<br />

What could they do? Abduct her? So they<br />

unlocked the door and left her with Tracy's hug and<br />

Evelyn's kiss and Priss's warning.<br />

The whitewashed loft floated in layered clouds of<br />

gray and blue smoke. The loft winked with a hundred<br />

icy glasses. The loft warmed with the heat of hype. The<br />

Dingley Falls ladies had left, but the party stayed. The<br />

party laughed and leered and sneered and mooched<br />

and munched and stroked and quipped and tripped and

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