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How is it you create these redeemed beautiful souls with such facility? Give them inner lives so well expressed we can’t stop ourselves becoming invested in them? Pray their relationships, potential and chances succeed despite so little hope?

Even the seeming tendrils of supporting characters and wonderfully weird details become foundational in this.

Extraordinary piece, J.

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I think you should start reading these out loud. Use the Substack App and just go for it. Nobody here writes junkies and losers as well as you. The deeper you look into your stories, the more humanity you see. You capture the characters and express their hurt and loss so eloquently. A pleasure reading you.

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He quit.

He's moving on and sorry for what he did.

And he's not going back.

Patching holes.

Good for Boolie!

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YOUR BEST YET, THIS ALREADY ONE OF THE BETTER TALES ABOUT THE LIFE, WELL ( SOMETIMES THERE IS A WELL BUT THERE ARE NO TRAFFIC SIGNS ORTICKET STUBS) AND SOMETIMES NO THER'S NO WELL CAUSE THERE'S NO NOTHING

I NOW HAVE TWO FRIENDS HERE MIIA AND NOT THE SLIGHTEST WHERE THEY ARE

DUDE, DID YOU GET MY BOOK???? HAVE A CHANCE TO REED IT??????

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Good little doc on Hubert Selby, who wrote REQUIEM FOR A DREAM.

https://michaelwdean.com/cubbymovie.com/

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