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What else haven’t you told me?”
I thought for a minute. “Actually, yes…there is,” I replied, pausing to consider my words carefully, “I eat steak now.”
I’d been a vegetarian for years, certainly the entire time I’d been with J, and had only recently crossed over to my new existence as a carnivore. I’d do anything for Marlboro Man, including forsake my longtime commitment to avoiding meat. This, I knew, would be the one way to get J’s attention. This, I knew, would make everything crystal clear to him.
“My God,” J said, his bitterness replaced with disgust. “What’s happened to you?
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