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April 1983

Gail Matthews is 24 years old. The past few months feel illusory.

Night spent in bars, nursing beers. Night spent with Johns to pay rent.

She once had an apartment, somewhere to call home.

Not these cheap motels that smelled of cigarette smoke, sweat. The apartment was near the airport.

Gail could still hear the commercial airliners overhead, loud enough to be a roar. She never did mind it.

In fact, Gail missed it, but she lost that place. Like other things in her life it was gone, and not coming back.

She did have Kurt, though somehow he made things worse than before.

It's Kurt's gambling problem. He never made money from this addiction. Only lost money.

So Gail started going home with men. They needed money to eat each day, and it was easy for Gail.

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