“You gotta just not try so hard,” Mark gave Ricky lady advice during a practice smoke break as Hooper yelled at her phone, the Brooklyn in her ripping whoever was on the other end a new one. Mark blew out a cloud of tobacco. “Like, I’m not saying that you are trying too hard, but, … Continue reading The world is won by those who let it go.
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Maui Memorial
A little over a year after Ana and Ricky bought their brownstone, (actually the bank had bought it, and they were just paying the bank back, something that Ricky never allowed himself to confuse) his mother, Lala, had been on a weeklong trip to Maui with her long-distance, still sort of married, oral surgeon boyfriend, … Continue reading Maui Memorial