![]() Jessie sets her macramé pocketbook on the front seat next to a tray of hotdogs from Gray's Papaya. I took my last exam this morning, I have a full week off before I start my internship, and we're going to Nantucket." "I know I shouldn't feel happy," she says. ![]() "Or I would be if I weren't so hungover." She pulls a cigarette out of a pack of Virginia Slims with her lips and leans over to Jessie, who rummages through her pocketbook for matches. Jessie's ex-boyfriend, Theo, basically lives there. ![]() ![]() "I need to get out of this city," Jessie says at the same time that Kirby says, "I need to get out of this city." Jessie lights Kirby's cigarette and fights the urge to throw the matches out the open window-the city is so dirty, what difference would it make?-because she has taken great pains to rid her tiny studio apartment and her carrel at Bobst Library of everything Theo-related. ![]()
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