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The night is cool but still warm enough that downtown is bustling with people enjoying the last weeks of balmy weather before winter comes. “Come back here,” I say, nodding down the alley. We’ll talk in the back where there are fewer eyes.

“I’m such an idiot,” she says, sniffing beside me. “God, it’s no wonder you don’t want to really be with me if I get drunk and forget important things