My point is, I always let you live your life, no matter how bad you bungled it. Now you return the favor by keeping your mouth shut. Robbie’s place on Yellow Street is a new planet in a new solar system where I don’t have to be Perfect Miss Dagmar. I can just be Dag. Let me enjoy it while I can. Before too long, the bulldozers will destroy Planet Robbie. They keep leveling whole blocks to make room for The Glenn, which keeps spreading like a huge, shiny stain. Kind of like your vomit when the paramedics made you upchuck the pills.

Sincerely,

Dagmar

Love

Love

Todays getting real. Realer than any day previous. Robbies made plans in the past but nothing this heavy. All a us are feeling it. So it doesnt make any a us happy when Dag leaves cuz shes the smartest of all a us. She zippers her shiny red jacket and sucks at her knuckles bloody from drubbing the light switch and says how after piano shes gonna finish up her secret costume and be back for trick or treats.

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But Im not sure. Her eyes are all bloodshot from crying, you know? It makes me wonder. Dag weaves through the garbage piles and I yell out <Holla at you later?> but I guess shes too far away cuz she dont say anything back. For some reason I get worried shes gonna come up against Deformo but thats never happened before so thats dumb, and pretty soon me and Robbie and Midget are just standing there without dick to say. Rust blowing off in the wind, getting all in our eyes.

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Robbies smoking the saddest little butt. He sighs him a big old sigh and says if we cant use the apples then we got to go back to plan A. I aint even in the mood. I explain to him how Dag faked sick three times this month to work on her costume. Robbie ignores me and says how he has to call his new hookup, he just has to do it. Why wont fat boy shut up and listen to me? I explain how the third time Dag faked sick she used her finger, whipped herself up a big mouth a puke and dropped it, splat, right in the middle of social studies. Thats dedication right there! No way Dags going to let anyone screw up her Halloween! But Robbies still talking soft about how he has to get tough, dial the number, and make the mightyducking call.

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