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By the time Lisa and the others showed up, she no longer needed to vent about Kevin. What did it matter if it was a “friends with benefits” situation or just spectacular s*x with someone she liked?
Deirdre’s story had shifted something inside her. Life was unpredictable. Sometimes short. Sometimes cruel. If you found someone who made life more fun, or more pleasurable, or more anything good at all—why hesitate? Why hold back? So what if he had her tied up in knots. Maybe that was what life was all about, instead of her previous habit of running before she got too hurt.
Whatever was going on between her and Kevin, she wanted more of it. And she didn’t have to consult anyone else to know that.
So instead of dishing about Kevin, she and Lisa Peretti and Suzanne Finnegan and Brianna Gal
