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An Apartment Between Them 17

“How could I have known you’d have problems with it?â€?

“Um, well for starters, there was no way we could ever afford to both live there and eat. And you could’ve filled the hot tub yourself with the way you started drooling the minute you saw those – those girls across the hall.â€?

Ah yes, those two, Joe thought fondly.

“Tami and Stephanie are women, not girls,â€? Adam totally missed the point.

“You remember their names?â€? Kate shouted.

“You’re always going on about political correctness, but when it comes to people you don’t like, you just drop it. Well, that’s not very PC of you.â€?

“That was nearly two months ago and you remember their names?â€?

I know I do, Joe thought. I remember a lot of things about them.

“You remember the names of waiters and cashiers.â€?

“First of all, they’re fully dressed. And secondly, I don’t remember them for two months afterwards.â€?

Although the former might have something to do with the latter.

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