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THESE STREETS Are Hard on a girl That’s the thing about this city: these streets are hard on a girl. You've known this for a while, but when you hold her head in your lap n watch her broken eyes stare up at you for the eleven minutes before the ambulance takes her away, you begin to know it in a different way. Two pink lines -- pale blood -- leak from her nose to where her lips peaked. They are still damp to the touch, but they are already cold. You'd met Mike at the old Drop-in the summer before, n when you’d bumped into him a...
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