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We played in bed, laughing: she kept quoting poetry and I yelled, “Stop it or I’ll lose my erection!” Later, we watched Rocky while lying on the floor and nibbling each other’s earlobes and toes.

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Stacy finally went to her dreamland, California, and returned terribly disappointed. She had always set up unreasonable expectations of some kind of paradise out there. Mason says now she sees her disenchantment as a metaphor for her whole life.