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My God,_ she says. __ feel like I__e gone through a car wash.__ laugh, or force myself to, because it__ not something I__ normally laugh at.__hat about you?_ she says to Scottie. __ow did you make out?_____ a boy,_ Scottie says. __ook at me.__and has gotten into the bottom of her suit, creating a huge bulge. She scratches at the bulge. ____ going to go to work now,_ she says. I think she__ impersonating me and that Mrs. Speer is getting an unrealistic, humiliating glimpse.__cottie,_ I say. __ake that out.___t must be fun to have girls,_ Mrs. Speer says.She looks at the ocean, and I see that she__ looking at Alex sunbathing on the floating raft. Sid leans over Alex and puts his mouth to hers. She raises a hand to his head, and for a moment I forget it__ my daughter out there and think of how long it has been since I__e been kissed or kissed like that.__r maybe you have your hands full,_ Mrs. Speer says.__o, no,_ I say. __t__ great,_ and it is, I suppose, though I feel like I__e just acquired them and don__ know yet. __hey__e been together for ages._ I gesture to Alex and Sid. I don__ understand if they__e a couple or if this is how all kids in high school act these days.Mrs. Speer looks at me curiously, as if she__ about to say something, but she doesn__.__nd boys._ I gesture to her little dorks. __hey must keep you busy.___hey__e a handful. But they__e at such a fun age. It__ such a joy.__he gazes out at her boys. Her expression does little to convince me that they__e such a joy. I wonder how many times parents have these dull conversations with one another and how much they must hide. They__e so goddamn hyper, I__ do anything to inject them with a horse tranquilizer. They keep insisting that I watch what they can do, but I truly don__ give a fuck. How hard is it to jump off a diving board?My girls are messed up, I want to say. One talks dirty to her own reflection. Did you do that when you were growing up?__our girls seem great, too,_ she says. __ow old are they?___en and eighteen. And yours?___en and twelve.___h,_ I say. __reat.___our younger one sure is funny,_ she says. __ mean, not funny. I meant entertaining.___h, yeah. That__ Scottie. She__ a riot.