[There're two or three liquor bottles lying on the bedroom floor that could probably answer that question far more honestly than he could, but he just shrugs.]
It was something to do. A productive distraction.
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[There're two or three liquor bottles lying on the bedroom floor that could probably answer that question far more honestly than he could, but he just shrugs.]
It was something to do. A productive distraction.