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Show Inside Out, 167 had said. I had wept. I had never forgotten her disappointed face in the faculty room where she took me to discuss it. I also now knew my 7's better than anyone else. "This isn't like you". What was I really like? "C'mon, Andli. I gotta count these pages or I won't make it." "It's complicated, Denver," I said. "The ending is. I could tell you how it ends, but it doesn't make that much sense unless you read it all." Denver sighed. "OK, look," he said. "I'm going to read like crazy. Maybe I can get it done. But if it's looking like I won't, Til call you again later tonight and you can explain it to me, OK?" "OK," I said. When he called back that night, I told him the ending. He promised he would finish it the next day. Smoky and sweet. |