For Dean and Kris and Kate and Damon, who urged me to fix it and send it out; For Matt, who encouraged me to clean it up; And for Debb, the first reader of my dreams: thanks for letting me use your shower.
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Tom Renfield kicked the door of the girls' rest room open and pushed the mop bucket in ahead of him, wondering if there would be any new graffiti since he last cleaned there a week ago.