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PART ONE
Chapter 8. | Beautiful Boy
His mother called him Jakey; he called her Jess.
At his high-school graduation party, three months before he went to college, six months before he shot himself dead, she got drunk and serenaded him from behind the karaoke machine, her spiky hair wild, one dress strap falling off her tattooed shoulder, tears in her eyes: “‘Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful boy.’”
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