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[There's no getting around it. It's an essay. About the dangers of sugar abuse on your health, linked to several medical articles. In it, she links the abuse of sugar to depression, diabetes, dopamine imbalances, fueling cancer cells and making tumors more aggressive, impotence, increased risk of heart attacks and heart disease, increased inflammation leading to joint pain and arthritis, increased risk of strokes, kidney failure, and rotting teeth.
Included in her essay is a list of signs of sugar abuse, including false teeth, rotten teeth, pupil dilation, jitteriness, mid-afternoon 'crashes', and other symptoms.
She wraps up with a plea for people to seek help and rehabilitation for their addictions and avoid anyone who might try to push such addictive substances on them.]
Included in her essay is a list of signs of sugar abuse, including false teeth, rotten teeth, pupil dilation, jitteriness, mid-afternoon 'crashes', and other symptoms.
She wraps up with a plea for people to seek help and rehabilitation for their addictions and avoid anyone who might try to push such addictive substances on them.]
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Nah, hallucinations aren't his thing. Being a dick was occasionally Rich's thing though, even if they never talk about it because he's supposedly matured. ]
I don't know why he'd lie about me and Vance - that doesn't make sense at all - but say I believe you about the ditching. Rich... Ugh, please don't take this personally because he's done it to all his friends at some point, even Nita.
[ Robbie refuses to feel sorry about telling Grif this. One way or another, Rich told Grif about a very private conversation and basically invited prying gossip. ]
But sometimes Rich gets it in his head that he's too cool for school, and he bails. If you watched that stupid show, you saw him do a little version of it. It's always been when his life is a mess, so I don't know if this is that. He's... dead, back home... And Nita got sent home, and now two of his friends aren't really talking...
I could get why he'd do a stressed-out disappearing act, but I can't get past the lie. Rich is honest - too honest. He's blunt, and he's never figured out how to soften the blow before he puts his foot in his mouth. But lying? It's not in him. Blue blazes, he can barely curse.
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But he never has ditched Grif before. Not like this.
He's not going to figure out these feelings right now, not here in this conversation with Robbie. Grif pushes them aside. ]
Right. Rich doesn't lie like this.
And I don't know where he goes.
[ A wheel has started to turn here. ]
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If I’m right, and he goes off somewhere to kick stones, he’s probably on the Habitat Deck. There’s a lot of New York there: Central Park, a bit of the warehouse district that includes our old HQ. Now Coney Island's there. Very scenic for moping. It’s almost sitting on the rooftop at night.
[ The humor doesn’t reach his face, and Robbie shakes his head. ]
But, if you’re not lying, he is. And he’s lying just to stir shit up and make you look bad, or hurt Vance, or, I don’t know, gaslight me, and that’s not the Rich I know so my guesses are probably wrong. It’s not anybody I want to know either, so… I don’t know if I’m joining the search posse.
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I'm gonna find out what's going on. I'll tell you when I do.
[ And if that means cornering Rich and having a fucking awful conversation, so be it. ]