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Cat ran with a crew of perpetually chlorinated girls, who woke at 4 each morning by choice and liked to do superhuman feats, like flip upside down and rattle off ten handstand pushups. She left for practice at 5 in the morning and didn't come home until dinner and half the time she'd already eaten Little Caesar's in somebody's car. All that was to say we knew each other, right down to childhood terrors and first words and how best to drive each other up the wall in long car rides, while also not really knowing each other at all. I felt that distance now.
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