“Hey, Matt, what’s up, man?”
“Dude, best news ever, parents are gone for the whole friggin’ loooong weekend. Party central at our place!”
“No way… cool. Let’s get the word out.”
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“Hey, best blowout ever, man! Three days of non-stop partee! Better get this shit cleaned up before your parents get back.”
“Yeah, no biggie, but I still have to mow the frickin’ lawn.”
“Anything else you were supposed to do?”
“Nope, that was it.”
“Cool. Hey, man… do you notice like a… weird smell?”
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Allison Howard co-edited A Memoir of Friendship: The Letters Between Carol Shields and Blanche Howard (Penguin 2007) as a joint project with her mother and co-writer, Blanche Howard, and has been published in York University’s, Canadian Woman Studies. She is a former social worker living in Penticton, B.C.
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