Chapter 17
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1. "Enough lying around! Get in the water! You can get skin cancer anywhere!"
2. "Ahem. The lotion we put on was spf 95. Unless the ozone hole has relocated directly above belleville, I will be fine."
3. "Tanning safely, yet stylishly. Not rolling around out there like some... Sea serpent."
4. "Okey-dokey. Keep my phone safe from prying eyes, then."
5. "Oh, I was planning to sell it to the canoeists, but since you asked--"
6. "It's got my latest writing project on it. Just call me paranoid."
7. "Not if you're gonna take all the fun out of it."
1. "As I suspected. You look and smell like a wild animal."
2. "Oh?"
3. "How wild?"
4. "I guess that's "An open question.""
5. "Well, we are an open question, right?"
6. "Do you want me to answer it? Are you fishing here, aggie?"
7. "Nuh-uh. Heck nuh. I just wanted to... Share my feelings with you."
8. "I figure the questions on line 9 are questions we'll answer together, in good time."
9. "Uh, which was line 9 again?"
10. "You did read the poem. You just now quoted it."
11. "I... Skimmed it."
12. "You skimmed it?"
13. "It was fourteen lines long!"
14. "It's hard to read! That phone screen chops your lines up all over the place! Why don't you use an ipad like a normal person?"
1. "I can't believe you! You insensitive monster!"
2. "You're not... Serious, are you? Look, I can read it now..."
3. "I poured my heart into that thing! I agonized over the lack of eye imagery in the second quatrain!"
4. "You didn't show it to me! You fed me some bullshit reverse-psych--you said it was okay to peek, so I peeked, I didn't pore!"
5. "Look, aggie, c'mon, look, c'mon. Let's go back and"
6. "Aaaaaaaa"
7. "Were you raised by wolves?"
8. "Sea serpent's gotcha, penny. Whatcha gonna do?"
9. "Oh, yeah! This'll get us to the "I love you" stage! I feel a proposal coming on right now!"
