"I guess, all things considered. A little black and blue, but the boy really knows how to take a close-up."
"You simp," she said. She leaned forward to kiss me, and said, "Ow." She fingered the livid yellow flesh around her mouth.
"You don't understand, you simp," she said. "You didn't look."
"I didn't want to look. He just looked like Toby."
"That's what I mean," she said triumphantly. "After all this time, after all those big smiles. He finally looked exactly like Toby."
Postscript
Some of the characters in this book are based more directly than is usual, or legally advisable, on human beings. Others are based on carnivorous bipeds who pass, or passed, as humans.
The girl who was the model for Nana quit dancing a few months before the book was finished and went back to computer school. Four months after that she died in Hollywood of an overdose of cocaine. Her heart just stopped beating.
Janie Gordon is now an assistant director. Her credits feature a middle initial I didn't know she had.
Alma married the dentist.
The actor who inspired Toby still lives on the beach. Aside from an occasional appearance on Bowling for Dollars, he's not working, and he stays out of the papers.
Los Angeles is still there. Bigger and more fun than ever.
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