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We like to believe that we have control on our lives. That we can sculpt perfect moments around us. That if we put ourselves in the right setting with the right people everything can be everything we want it to be. A few weeks ago, two of my best friends, Nell and Pete, came in from out of town for what started as a perfect weekend. But as the weekend got closer to the end, and as we tried to hold on to that perfect moment, things spun out of our control when the forces of nature and of life changed everything.
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? AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM AFTER THAT
[?mama told me not to come?]
Everything started Friday night.
Pete had just graduated architecture school in Chicago and when he found out that his roomate Jimmy had been planning to take a road trip to New York City, he couldn?t think of a single good reason not to go. So that Saturday of the week before he called to tell me that he was coming, and that following Thursday (?) he and Jimmy and Jimmy?s friend Jaime, piled into a car with far too many cigarettes, and started that 12-hour burn across route 80 to the Empire City and by Friday night Pete and I were drinking margaritas and eating potentially dangerous fish tacos at a Mexican restaurant on 14th St.
Nell was on summer break from American in DC studying anthropology and she had tentatively planned to come up for the weekend, for our friends? annual Stroh Day party...
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Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mama Told Me Not To Come | Three Dog Night | It Ain't Easy. | Dunhill | 1970 | 01:45 |
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