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These jeans are slippery. That sounds weird; I’ll find a better way to say that. One that doesn’t make me sound like an old, creepy guy on Craigslist. It isn‘t really the jeans themselves either; it’s the zipper. I got these at a local thrift shop and they functioned just fine then. Three months later, no, five months later, and the thing just won‘t stay up. That’s what she said... Anyway, I liked them. They were better fitting than the ones I found at “regular“ shop, which those ones would have cost me nearly forty dollars! Forty. Dol...
“Jack...What are you doing? Out here. With the likes of me? Ha, I’d think everybody back at the camp is probably worried sick about you. Should get back to em; otherwise, they’ll kill me for just lookin at ya.”“Relax, Clayton. They know I’m here.”“What....how did you-““Can I come in?”“You can...”“Not too shabby a place you got here: a fireplace, a kitchen, a bedroom, a living room. The wallpaper could be better, though, and the carpet’s pretty crap. Dead bugs? Come on, man, I know vacuum cleaners haven’t been a thing for a while now but have...
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