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On Bill's first date
>"Bill took Laurie to dinner and afterward, before their movie started, he pulled into Toys 'R' Us. They roamed the aisles playing with action figures and water pistols [...] They could barely stop talking long enough to sit through the movie."
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On Laurie's memory of Bill
>"We bonded immediately. He had the exile-from-the-rest-of-society thing going already. And, high school being a great thing to feel cynical and exiled from, he had this dark soul; or not "dark soul" so much as "Isn't this all a bunch of bullshit?" attitude. He was this misanthrope. [...] I think there was something painful to him about the fact he didn't completely feel he was part of something."
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On Bill and Laurie's romance
>"All summer, they went to drive-in movies and to see Bill's favorite music, mostly blues and jazz groups. They sat around in his room [...] talking about the best books, the worst assholes at school. Bill showed her the little comic strip he had been doing called 'The Adventures of Sane Man'. Sane Man was this existential superhero whose one gift was the ability to react to all situations with total logic. He was a sober lone ranger who traveled the world seeking out narrow-minded irrational people, guilty of logic crimes, who he would defeat with his razor-sharp wit."
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