* JULY 18, 1968 - MOTHER CALLED, TOLD ME TO COME HOME & NOT TO LISTEN TO THE SPECIALIST. DIDN’T REPLY, SHE HUNG UP. VERY DEPRESSED. VERY STONED. THINGS ARE GETTING BAD AGAIN.
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INDEPENDENT AND SELECTIVE ORIGINAL CHARACTER. WRITTEN BY EMMA.
❛❛ — normally, t’e individuals i end up talkin’ to are products of t’e forever morally-starved american dregs o’ society. not precociousauthors whose work i’ve actually happened t’ read, yeh.
❜❜ refreshment glitters in a usually muted black gaze, a pallid hand extended for suitable introduction.
❛❛ robin. robin donahue. i don’t expect ya t’know who i am. an’ if you do, treat me as if y’ don’t. first impressions are better t’at way, right ?
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the woman receives him with slender, perfect fingers, a lawyer’s smile that answers his question wordlessly. she knows the music business, reads the magazines that pile on her bedside, has heard of robin donahue. she even knows how she’d reference him, the words to use : feverish, fatalistic, a mirror darkly. still, the handshake cements the agreement, and she says nothing. ‘ the way i see it, everything’s cracking up. is that what you’re interested in? everything cracking up? ’