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Tuesday, September 14

This morning, I skipped my cardio workout -- with a twinge of regret because I was looking forward to flirting with Randy at the club. Instead, I met Allie at her apartment, which is still too chaotic for entertaining customers -- what with the rubble left behind by her sub-tenant.

"Where did this geek come from?" I asked, tossing some tangled cables into a bag of rubbish. "This place looks like hell!"

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"Oh," she said, blushing, "It's a long story ... we went to high school together. When I was 16, we made out at his sister's birthday party. In the rec room." But," she added, a faraway look in her eyes, "it never went anywhere -- we lost touch after graduation. Then I ran into Steve last spring -- on 10th Avenue -- and we became friends."

I felt a strange nostalgic tug inside -- I was so restless and impatient at that age that I missed out on the rites of passage that girls like Allison experienced. Necking with some other kid my own age -- at 16. I can't imagine it -- and yet, of course, I can. I've seen enough movies, heard plenty of teen dating songs and even had one or two abortive romances with high school boys before I graduated to older guys (who now seem so much like boys when I remember them). I still wonder what it would have been like to fuck someone my age -- though I'm also glad I didn't have to endure the social problems of high school. Allison's suburban past is so normal, it's exotic to me.

"Does he know?" I asked her suddenly. "Why you moved out? About your business?"

"Of course not!" she exclaimed. "My straight friends think my parents are still paying my bills."

We got her bedroom in shape, then attempted to tackle the living room. Allie's the kind of girl who tidies up before the maid comes over, so I tried to appeal to that side of her conscience as we mulled over the problem of Tom Winters and the letter.

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