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chanson, March 9, 2009

The next morning I called up Joe and Sam to ask them if they wanted to go to the mall. Mostly I wanted to get myself a Cat Stevens album after the movie I’d watched with Andrea the night before. It turned out that Sam didn’t have to go to football practice that day so they were both available. I swung by their house to pick them up and we went to the mall.

When we got to the mall, my first stop was the record store. I picked out a compilation that had on it most of the songs that I remembered from the movie.

As I was buying it, Joe asked, “Why the sudden interest in Cat Stevens?” I didn’t want to tell him the truth because I didn’t want to tell him I’d been on a date with Andrea. In case he liked her too, as I suspected. So I made something up. Read the rest of the story »

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