She brushed a hand against my cheek and kissed me. I felt as if it lasted for eternity, and had that sensation of falling I knew all too well. I was about to complicate everything I had taken years and years to get under control. If thirty had been the luckiest year of my life, thirty-two was about to be my descent into the maelstrom.
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After the movie, we strolled around Tompkins Square Park and talked about the lack of biographical information available on Murnau. We hadn’t touched the coke and I switched to soda the moment we left Avenue A. I wanted to remember everything.
Sitting on a park bench, Janine told me about how she had come to be the front woman for the Blue Is, who had already been an established rock blues band on the local tri-state area circuit. They weren’t gett
