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Molly Notkin's party: Joelle's overdose (viii)

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she’s holding the bottle, recalling vividly its slogan for the last generation was The Choice of a Nude Generation, when she was of back-pocket height and prettier by far than any of the peach-colored titans they’d gazed up at, his hand in her lap her hand in the box and rooting down past candy for the Prize

Context

Inside the single enormous overdose sentence: the Pepsi bottle she built the pipe from triggers vivid involuntary recall, and the -plex memory floods back uninvited. And the replay is not faithful — p. 237 had "her hand in his lap"; the overdose version inverts it to "his hand in her lap" — the memory forking under the hit, or disclosing what the first version veiled. Cited as written in both places.

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