When she first came home from college, Dana and Bethany called each other every night before going to bed. Because Bethany had to be up at six the next morning to get ready to go to work, that meant Dana was in her bedroom with the door closed at nine o’clock, stretched out on the bed with the telephone receiver pressed to her ear as she ached to be in the same room with her friend again. Already she missed the long nights they used to spend in the dorm, the both of them relaxing on Bethany’s lower bunk, cuddling beneath the bed covers with their backs against the wall as they watched TV, or talking late into the night after they’d turned out the lights, or simply sharing a pizza while studying. Graduation changed everything. Dana wasn’t too sure it was necessarily for the good, either.
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