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Behind the Circus was dark and quiet. I will, Micah said, unless Anita wants to. It was that simple. She did not interrupt.

But not sadness. Superficially it resembled a party, with too many peopleclogged into too small a space, a dingy loft off Jane Street in the Village. And we passed through the slough of despond. Using the phone number of Valerie’s alleged apartment in San Francisco, I got a disconnect.