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You’ve been telling yourself for a long time “Today is the day!” only to fall into old ways before the day, or if you’re lucky, the week, is spent.

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Ivan said he and Allan came back from the beach to see Jerry and Shelli making love on the waterbed. Everyone laughed, but I excused myself from the table as Allan was describing Shelli’s ecstatic groans during sex with Jerry.

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One girl, whose name I can’t remember, sat next to me, talking about this and that. Her pale blue Oxford shirt was buttoned low and I could see her creamy bare tit. God, she was beautiful.

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At home, I called Gary, who said he spent the weekend “on the hunt” — for girls.  I read some Wordsworth and Poli Sci stuff and watched ‘Jude the Obscure’ on ‘Masterpiece Theatre.’

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We rode into Chinatown, kissing at every red light, almost.