It was a Friday night when it all began. I was sitting in my living room enjoying a tall Bud Light and listening to music playing on my laptop. I’d only been in IB—Imperial Beach for the nonnatives—for three weeks, but Cali was a taste of freedom I never wanted to let go of. I had moved into a house only fifty feet from the beach and found a job in Coronado that people would envy me for. It felt too damn good to be true. Turns out it was . . .
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Darryl was already gone when I opened my eyes in the bright bitterness of morning . . .
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She wondered what his skin felt like. There was little of it to see, wrapped in all black like a Bedouin woman in the desert . . .