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• Title: Goodbye, Arkansas (Short Story)
• Author : Colorado Review: a journal of contemporary literature
• Release Date : January 22, 2010
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 65 KB

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I crossed the bridge the first time to amuse a girl. Her name was Clay Ann and she came from Amarillo, Texas. At the time, during that desperate fall of my freshman year, I was on her heels in the way I was on the heels of every woman who smiled twice at me. I'd call Clay Ann a neo--hippie if that wouldn't diminish her exoticism for me. She was a hippie's hippie, an aggressive female slacker, an endangered species at my college. She showed those hippie pretenders--with their Phish bumper stickers and compulsive Widespread Panic concert attendance and overpriced marijuana paraphernalia--how a true degenerate behaved. She came to class more than once knocked clear out of her skull on some pills but never had the druggie's wisdom just to pipe down and not go for the daily participation grade. She would smoke pot in her dorm room with no rolledup towel underneath the door, no pretense of hiding what she was up to. She was generous and communal not only with her drugs but with her drug--related wisdom: "Barrett," she said to me one time, "whatever happens, don't ever do acid. You're entirely too paranoid and insecure already. It would destroy you." (I consider this some of the best advice I've ever received.) In retrospect I'd like to think she was a lesbian, but in truth she was really just not that into me. But before making this discovery I found myself driving her around Midtown Memphis one night, trying not to be boring. "Have you ever?" she asked.

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