Matrimony (2008)
“It was like the rings around Saturn, Julian thought, until, when you were a senior, it was as if you weren’t in orbit any longer and you lived far enough away from school that you made no pretense of going to class.
It was the fall of their senior year and he was living with Mia; in the room next door lived Carter and Pilar. It was a huge house, nominally a co-op, in that there was a shopping rotation and monthly meetings, but the four of them weren’t interested in living cooperatively and had ...joined because the bedrooms were enormous and out back was a landscaped garden with a hot tub raised in the middle of it. They would stay in the hot tub so long they’d nearly fall asleep, and one time Pilar did in fact fall asleep, listing to the side like a canoe before keeling over and toppling in, only to be rescued, coughing, by Carter.
It was a temperate October night and they were lounging in the tub, the four of them illuminated by lanterns strung from the garden walls. Mia lay on her back in the water, warming herself in an imaginary sun.MoreLess
It was the fall of their senior year and he was living with Mia; in the room next door lived Carter and Pilar. It was a huge house, nominally a co-op, in that there was a shopping rotation and monthly meetings, but the four of them weren’t interested in living cooperatively and had ...joined because the bedrooms were enormous and out back was a landscaped garden with a hot tub raised in the middle of it. They would stay in the hot tub so long they’d nearly fall asleep, and one time Pilar did in fact fall asleep, listing to the side like a canoe before keeling over and toppling in, only to be rescued, coughing, by Carter.
It was a temperate October night and they were lounging in the tub, the four of them illuminated by lanterns strung from the garden walls. Mia lay on her back in the water, warming herself in an imaginary sun.MoreLess
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