The Real Deal

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“Oh yeah?” Bobby replied. “Tell me more.”

“She’s the most amazing woman I’ve ever met!” He snatched his cigarettes from the coffee table. “I mean, we’ve only had one date, but wow! I never met a chick I could really talk to before, ya know?”

“Cool,” Bobby said.

“Her name’s Liz,” Ray said, lighting a smoke. He offered the pack to Bobby who shook his head. “I mean, don’t get me wrong, I still want to bang her. But I don’t just want to bang her. Ya know?”

“Yeah, I get the general idea.”

“We met last week at the Kennedy rally—” He stopped. “You’re voting for Kennedy, right?”

“Of course.”

“All right then. Anyway, she’s a volunteer for the local Democratic party. Hands out fliers, knocks on doors, that sort of thing. But she’s not like the other chicks there.”

He took a quick drag from his cigarette. “She actually understands the issues, see? She’s not some ditzy halfwit whose only there ’cause she thinks Kennedy’s cute. And she’s not a campus radical or anything. She can back up her political views with reasoned argument. Do you have any idea how rare that is?”

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