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It took you several calls across several days before you actually got through to Lamesha one evening. When she did answer, her voice sounded hoarse as she said, "Wendell Dumein, is that you?" You asked her if she'd been drinking, and she said, "What about it?" You asked her what the problem was, and she was silent for a while before she finally said, "Alejandro got a boyfriend." That explained a lot, and you offered your condolences to her. She burst into tears, and you did your best to console her for a while before she finally calmed down. You talked to her normally before asking her about…

"Lots of things, really. I want to get drunk, I want to get angry, and I want to get laid. Anything you want to help me with?" she said pleasantly, but you sensed a sharpness in her tone. You sighed and said, "None of them," asking her again if there was anything else that you could do for her. "Then listen to me talk. I want to talk about everything, and I want to talk about nothing. I want to talk until time runs out so that there's nothing else to talk about," she said, and she continued talking for about five minutes. At the end of that, she ran out of breath, and you took that chance to ask about…