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Duke
April 5, 2010
Lora tipped her drink toward me. She’d been drunk for the last hour, and the game hadn’t even started. “So, tell me again… what happens if you win this bet?”
I leaned against the couch in Ash Talmadge’s off-campus house. Unsurprisingly, his parents had gotten him a place in Durham for college in the same way that Derek’s parents had, and he was throwing a national championship party. Because Duke was in the national championship.
“Technically, I’ve already won.”
UNC had fizzled out in the tournament, and Duke was about to clinch the title for the fourth time. Neither of us had called in for the end of the bet, even when UNC lost. It was as if we were both holding our breath to see how far this would all go.
“Yeah, but still…”
“She gets to get back at him for w
