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“Hey man,” Ricky said. “Stuff like this is pretty beautiful, huh?” There is no point to any of this, I thought back. We were floating in Ricky’s above-ground pool, looking up at the stars. The pool had half a dozen holes in it, so he had a few garden hoses…

Shaking hands held the list of rules. My sweat blurred the ink. I took deep breaths. In a way, the noise and chaos were calming. The screams from the ball pit and the kids yelling at the ticket dispensers were like an Om, repeating endlessly on the path to nirvana.…

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The most important rule of a bubble bath: if you can see the blood, you need more bubbles. If you’re mute, standing in the shower while you wash off might make you feel a little empty, so you take baths, because no one sings in the bathtub. That’s just weird.…