He stretched out on the bed, which was barely big enough to hold him. What a pain it was going to be to sleep in a single bed for the first time since he was a little kid. How long would he have to stay here, anyway? Omigod, he remembered he had no clean clothes for tomorrow and hadn’t called Dana yet. He needed a suit and tie to wear to Sunday dinner.
It wouldn’t do to call from the pay phone in the hallway because he might be overheard. The drugstore was probably his best bet. He sat up and swiveled his legs onto the floor, then stood up and went to the closet for his jacket and winter cap.
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Thank God the drugstore was still open. Larry made a person-to-person collect call. When Dana answered on the first ring and accepted the charges, he said, “You answered so fast, babe, you must
