He stays up very late watching her pack. She doesn’t ask for help; he doesn’t offer. She put one of her records on the turntable but never turned it over after the last song, so:<\/p>\n
“Skip and hiss,” she says, leaning on her dad’s biggest suitcase.<\/p>\n
“I want to play guitar for you,” he says.<\/p>\n
“Too bad it’s my guitar,” she smiles, “and I packed it, and you can’t play anyway.”<\/p>\n
“This one song,” he says.<\/p>\n
“I know which one. But no.”<\/p>\n
South doesn’t say anything.<\/p>\n
She shakes her head. “We’ve spent ten weeks not being naked, South. Why start now?”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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