The adult you pretend to be convinces himself that the risk is worth the game, the game worth the risk. Tells himself the choice of lifestyle could get him killed - on the Daytona track, the bull-ring, falling from the raw steel framework forty stories up, catching a rodeo hoof in the side of the head.
John D. MacDonald
A Tan and Sandy Silence
1972
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Jeff Brouws
Capri motel
Joplin Missouri 1993
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I had just reread this the other day, realizing juat how much I miss the MacDonalds.
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