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Filthy Postcard #7 -- "I say Bye-Bye."

And then she walked out of his life—cheaper than buying a bonesaw. Thumbed a ride past the edge of town with an alcoholic soccer mom named Patrice, jumped off at a stub of a gas station along the highway. Had to get a key for the restroom, where she chopped at her hair with a pair of plastic safety scissors, cussing all the way. Bastard. Leaned over the cast-iron half-sink and assembled her new face out of makeup from her bag—she'd dump it on the way out in favour of a white leather clutch. Hitch her way to the border before dark. She puckered up for her reflection; purple lipstick didn't say "on the lam," did it?

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joy:

You are beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

Fucking brilliant. Full of mystery AND it captures the moment.

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