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“Hey,” Cody said, and when Nate looked over at him, Cody smiled. “When it’s dark enough, you can see the stars.”

Nate tried to smile back, but failed. “I only see the dark.”

“Me too.” Cody nudged Nate’s knee with his own, and this time, Nate did manage to smile a little. “Guess it gives us a reason to keep looking up.”

“My mom always says, ‘Despair is anger with no place to go.’”

Cody chuckled and put his head down. He ran his hands through his straight black hair. “I guess that makes me Despair, then.”

“My mom also says, ‘When it’s dark enough, you can see the stars.’”

“Oh yeah? Well, my mom says, ‘If the world didn’t suck, we’d fall off.’”

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“It makes sense now. I know exactly what it means.” He couldn’t seem to stop smiling. “‘When it’s dark enough, you can see the stars.’ And I think I do.”

Nate shook his head and kissed Cody again. “I only see you.”

Those four words were the best Christmas gift anybody had ever given him.”

<3 Maybe they are,but so what?They’re cool, man.And I’d rather have them than my Uncle Frank.He’s a drunk,and he beats on my aunt, and he beats on my cousins, and he harasses all the waitresses at work.Everybody knows he fucks around with any woman whose pants he can get into.So am I supposed to be proud of my good ol’ Uncle Frank and ashamed of my aunts because they like each other more than they like guys?

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that's heavier than I thought. But really good!

Nice slow start w realistic characters in a tiny town in Wyoming w nothing to do.